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  • Rogue performances[electronic resource] :staging the underclasses in early American theatre culture /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 812/.209352624
    杜威分類號: 812.009
    書名/作者: Rogue performances : staging the underclasses in early American theatre culture // Peter P. Reed.
    作者: Reed, Peter P.
    出版者: New York, NY : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: xii, 249 p. : : ill. ;; 25 cm.
    標題: American drama - History and criticism. - 18th century
    標題: American drama - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Theater and society - History - 18th century. - United States
    標題: Theater and society - History - 19th century. - United States
    標題: Poor in literature.
    標題: Working class in literature.
    標題: Rogues and vagabonds in literature.
    ISBN: 9780230622715
    ISBN: 0230622712
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: 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 Tomand Jerry -- Slave revolt and classical blackness in The gladiator -- Epilogue: escape artists and spectatorial mobs.
    摘要、提要註: Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture's fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period's most popular plays. Peter Reed alsoexplores ways these characters helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera, patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful, persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in antebellum American drama.
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