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Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 examines how Americans staged
their cultures in the decades before the Civil War, and advances
the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside
and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded
conventional ideas of performance as an activity restricted to
theatres in order to take up the staging of culture in other
venues: in issues of class, race, and gender, in parades and the
visits of dignitaries, in rioting and the denomination of
prostitutes, and in views of the town, the city, and the frontier.
Joining up-to-date historical research with a firm and clear-headed
grasp of contemporary critical theory, Theatre Culture in America
offers a wholly original approach to the complex intersections of
American theatre and culture.
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 advances the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded conventional ideas of performance as an activity restricted to theaters in order to take up the staging of culture in other venues--in issues of class, race, and gender, in parades and the visits of dignitaries, in rioting and the denomination of prostitutes, and in the views of the town, the city, and the frontier. Joining up-to-date historical research with a firm and clear-headed grasp of contemporary critical theory, Theatre Culture in America offers a wholly original approach to the complex intersections of American theater and culture.
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