Theater enough: American culture and the metaphor of the world stage, 1607-1789

Preface: Toward a theatrics of culture -- Prologue: Democratic spectacles: Medium, message, and metaphor -- A theater of the world, to 1630. Politics, history, and theatrum mundi: some early formulations. American origins I: a theater of theaters. American origins II: a theater against theaters. Pro...

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1. Verfasser: Richards, Jeffrey H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 1991
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Zusammenfassung:Preface: Toward a theatrics of culture -- Prologue: Democratic spectacles: Medium, message, and metaphor -- A theater of the world, to 1630. Politics, history, and theatrum mundi: some early formulations. American origins I: a theater of theaters. American origins II: a theater against theaters. Prospero in Virginia: the example of Captain John Smith -- The theater of faith, 1630-1730. A theater on a hill: Puritans and the rhetoric of performance. Playing the (trans)script: the antinomian crisis. Theatrou Mestoi: the example of Cotton Mather -- The theater of action, 1676-1776. The field or the stage: democracy, theater, and Anglo-American culture. Theater of blood: the rituals of Republican revolution. Providential actor: the example of John Adams -- The theater of glory, 1776-1789. A theater just erected: America at war. Play and earnest on the postwar stage. Stage metaphor and the New Republic -- Epilogue: Instant theater
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 335 pages)
ISBN:9780822378228
0822378221

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