Performing patriotism : national identity in the colonial and revolutionary American theater
"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
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
230 pages ; 24 cm
9780812240245, 0812240243
1247413285
Theater, nation, and state in early America
Cato and company : a genealogy of performance
Free-born peoples : the politics of professional theater in early America
A school for patriots : colonial college theater
Bellicose letters : propaganda plays of the Revolution
Epilogue : Post-revolutionary patriotism and the American theater