Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic

Jeffrey H Richards author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Oct '05

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A 2005 study into American identity as revealed in the plays of post-revolutionary America.

Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic explores how theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards investigates the ways in which American theatre and playwrights struggled with representing national, cultural, and ethnic details for American audiences.Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.

"...a useful and insightful work for the Revolutionary period and the first formative decades of the nation....the work is well-researched and clearly written, occasionally amusing, and always honest in its style and assumptions." Odai Johnson, Virgina Magazine

ISBN: 9780521847469

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm

Weight: 770g

406 pages