Theatrical Nation : : Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain / / Michael Ragussis.
Perhaps the most significant development of the Georgian theater was its multiplication of ethnic, colonial, and provincial character types parading across the stage. In Theatrical Nation, Michael Ragussis opens up an archive of neglected plays and performances to examine how this flood of domestic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on performance histories
- Chapter 1. "Family Quarrels"
- Chapter 2. "Cutting Off Tongues" Multiethnic Spectacle and Ethnic Passing
- Chapter 3. "Cheeld o' Commerce" Merchants, Jews, and Fathers in a Commercial Nation
- Chapter 4. "Circumcised Gentiles," On Stage and Off
- Chapter 5. Novel Performances and "the Slaves of Art"
- Chapter 6. "For Our English Eyes" Regendering Ethnic Performance in the Novel
- Chapter 7. New Scenes for Old Farces
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments