Rogue performances : staging the underclasses in early American theatre culture

Rogue performances staging the underclasses in early American theatre culture

Atlantic underclasses and early American theatre culture -- Gallows performance, excarceration, and The beggar's opera -- Algerians, renegades, and transnational rogues in Slaves in Algiers -- Treason and popular patriotism in The glory of Columbia -- Pantomime and blackface banditry in Three-f...

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1. Verfasser: Reed, Peter P. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Ausgabe:1. publ., 1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
Schlagworte:
American drama > History and criticism > Theater and society > History > Poor in literature > Working class in literature > Rogues and vagabonds in literature > 18th century > 19th century > United States > Aufsatzsammlung > USA > Drama > Armut > Unterschicht > Geschichte 1728-1831
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Zusammenfassung:Atlantic underclasses and early American theatre culture -- Gallows performance, excarceration, and The beggar's opera -- Algerians, renegades, and transnational rogues in Slaves in Algiers -- Treason and popular patriotism in The glory of Columbia -- Pantomime and blackface banditry in Three-finger'd Jack -- Class, patronage, and urban scenes in Tom and Jerry -- Slave revolt and classical blackness in The gladiator -- Epilogue: escape artists and spectatorial mobs.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XII, 249 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:9781349374663
978-1-349-37466-3
0230607926
0-230-60792-6
9780230607927
978-0-230-60792-7