Rogue performances :staging the underclasses in early American theatre culture
- 作者: Reed, Peter P.
- 出版: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan 2009.
- 版本: 1st ed.
- 稽核項: xii, 249 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
- 叢書名: Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history
- 標題: History and criticism. , Rogues and vagabonds in literature. , American drama 18th century -- History and criticism. , American drama 19th century -- History and criticism. , American drama , Theater and society , Theater and society United States -- History -- 19th century. , Working class in literature. , Theater and society United States -- History -- 18th century. , Poor in literature. , History
- ISBN: 0230607926 , 9780230607927
- 附註: 103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
- 系統號: 005262410
- 資料類型: 圖書
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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 also explores 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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