Performing Patriotism
Subtitle: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (Early American Studies)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press; Univ of Pennsylvania Press
Published: September 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780812240245
Subjects: Social history; Theatre, drama; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - Military / War; History - U.S; History: American; USA; Political History; Theater - History & Criticism; United States - 18th Century; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); American - General; United States - Revolutionary War
Description: "Performing Patriotism examines the role of theatrical performance and printed drama in the development of early American political culture. Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, Jason Shaffer illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in colonial British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused. The result is a wide-ranging survey of eighteenth-century American theater history and print culture."--Jacket.