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 | | Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) by Rosemarie K. Bank ISBN-10: 9780521563871 ISBN-10: 0-521-56387-9 ISBN-13: 9780521563871 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-56387-1 Hardcover 1997-01-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product 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. | ||
Book Description 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 which 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. | ||