Theatre culture in America, 1825-1860

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Label

Theatre culture in America, 1825-1860

Statement of responsibility

Rosemarie K. Bank

Title variation

Theater culture in America, 1825-1860

Creator

• Bank, Rosemarie K

Subject

• History
• Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 examines how Americans staged their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded conventional ideas of performance as an activity restricted to theatres in order to take up the staging of culture in other venues: in issues of class, race, and gender, in parades and the visits of dignitaries, in rioting and the denomination of prostitutes, and in views of the town, the city, and the frontier. Joining up-to-date historical research with a firm and clear-headed grasp of contemporary critical theory, Theatre Culture in America offers a wholly original approach to the complex intersections of American theatre and culture

Member of

• Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

792/.0973/09034

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PN2248

LC item number

.B36 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama