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Theater Enough - American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 (Hardcover)
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Theater Enough - American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 (Hardcover)
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The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the
theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they
developed an ideology of theater that expressed their sense of
history, as well as their version of life in the New World. Theater
Enough provides an innovative analysis of early American culture by
examining the rhetorical shaping of the experience of settlement in
the new land through the metaphor of theater. The rhetoric, or
discourse, of early American theater emerged out of the figures of
speech that permeated the colonists' lives and literary
productions. Jeffrey H. Richards examines a variety of
texts-histories, diaries, letters, journals, poems, sermons,
political tracts, trial transcripts, orations, and plays-and looks
at the writings of such authors as John Winthrop and Mercy Otis
Warren. Richards places the American usage of theatrum mundi-the
world depicted as a stage-in the context of classical and
Renaissance traditions, but shows how the trope functions in
American rhetoric as a register for religious, political, and
historical attitudes.
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