| Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Reed, P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230607926 ISBN-13: 9780230607927 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $49.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: Reed explores the impact of early American theatre's portrayals of outlaw characters and the troubling force of the low in the theatrical imagination. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | United States - General - History | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 812.209 |
| LCCN: 2008042333 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 249 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |