Drama, theater, and identity in the American New Republic
In: Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama 22
Introduction: American identities and the transatlantic stage. -- Staging revolution at the margins of celebration. -- Revolution and unnatural identity in Crèvecoeur's "Landscapes" -- British author, American text: The Poor Soldier in the new republic. -- American author, British source: writing revolution in Murray's Traveler Returned. -- Patriotic interrogations: committees of safety in early American drama. -- Dunlap's queer André: versions of revolution and manhood. -- Coloring identities: race, religion, and the exotic. -- Susanna Rawson and the dramatized Muslim. -- James Nelson Barker and the stage American Native. -- American stage Irish in the early republic. -- Black theater, white theater, and the stage African. -- Theodore, culture, and reflected identity. -- Tales of the Philadelphia Theodore: Osmond, national performance, and supranational identity. -- A British or an American tar? Play, player, and spectator in Norfolk, 1797-1800. -- After The Contrast: Tyler, civic virtue, and the Boston stage.