American Theatre : : History, Context, Form / / Theresa Saxon.
This book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical ventures in the United States. It embraces all epochs of theatre history, from pre-colonial Native American performance rituals and the endeavours of early colonisers in the sixteenth and seventeenth ce...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | BAAS Paperbacks : BAAS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Critical Heritage
- 1 Defining American ‘Drama’
- 2 European Forms
- 3 Performance and Strife in Eighteenth-Century Theatre
- 4 Politics and Plays in the Nineteenth Century
- 5 ‘Modern’ American Theatre and the Twentieth Century
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index