| Theatre Culture in America, 1825 1860 Contributor(s): Bank, Rosemarie K. (Author), Wilmeth, Don B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521563879 ISBN-13: 9780521563871 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Dewey: 792.097 |
| LCCN: 96015178 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.37 lbs) 308 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 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 theaters 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 the 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 theater and culture. |