PERFORMING PATRIOTISM Shaffer Jason

Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater Shaffer Jason Wydawca: University of Pennsylvania Press Data wydania: 2007 ISBN: 9780812240245 Liczba stron: 240 Format: 160 x 236 x 27 Rodzaj oprawy: Hardback Opis produktu: Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused.