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Rogue Performances - Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
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Rogue Performances - Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2009)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
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Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century
American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious
characters. Highwaymen, thieves, beggars, rioting mobs, rebellious
slaves, and mutineers dominated the stage in the period s most
popular plays. Peter Reed also explores ways these characters
helped to popularize theatrical forms such as ballad opera,
patriotic spectacle, blackface minstrelsy, and melodrama. Reed
shows how both on and offstage, these paradoxically powerful,
persistent, and troubling figures reveal the contradictions of
class and the force of the disempowered in the American theatrical
imagination. Through analysis of both well known and lesser known
plays and extensive archival research, this book challenges
scholars to re-think their assumptions about the role of class in
antebellum American drama.
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