Rogue Performances : Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture

Name: Rogue Performances
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781349374663
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9781349374663

1st ed. 2009

by P. Reed

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

ISBN-10 1349374660

ISBN-13 9781349374663

Edition 1st ed. 2009

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 14th, 2009

Print length 249 Pages

Product Classification: Theatre studies Theatre studies History of the Americas Social & cultural history History of the Americas Social and cultural history The environment

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Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. 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.

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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