Theatre culture in America, 1825-1860 Rosemarie K. Bank

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bank, Rosemarie K.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States--History--19th century.

Theater.

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

Theater and society.

Physical Description:

xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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.

Contents:

Prologue: Universal spaces

Spaces of representation

Liminal spaces

Spaces of legitimation

Epilogue: Simultaneous spaces.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and index.

Local Notes:

The Forrest Performing Arts Collection.

ISBN:

0521563879

9780521563871

OCLC:

34475461