Screen LibraryRogue performances Staging the underclasses in early American theatre culture /
"Beyond its apparent topics, Rogue Performances delivers the substrata that refigure American literature, drama, performance studies, and class dynamics. Despite official suppression, rogue acts remain widespread and lively in both the archives and popular behavior. Reed's stunning researc...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230622715 |
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"Beyond its apparent topics, Rogue Performances delivers the substrata that refigure American literature, drama, performance studies, and class dynamics. Despite official suppression, rogue acts remain widespread and lively in both the archives and popular behavior. Reed's stunning research and close analyses prove that curtains and footlights, costumes and conventions, do not separate performance from publics but knot them together. Rogue Performances shows how we act American." - W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Lecturer in American Studies, Smith College and author of Raising Cain "Combining rich archival research and imaginative analysis, Reed offers scholars alternate ways to read the role of underclass figures often marginalized in or excluded from familiar histories of American theatre. Rogue Performances explores both traditional theatrical events (such as Rowson's Slaves in Algiers, Bird's The Gladiator, or blackface minstrel shows), as well as those impromptu performances that exploded within and outside playhouse walls. In each case, Reed pays careful attention to the 'rogue' characters who used their performances to claim a new kind of freedom. Reed situates his 'rogues' (sailors, slaves, working class laborers) in a circum-Atlantic context that underscores the debt American underclass performance culture owed to its European and African ancestors. He also illuminates the ways in which the crucible of American society refashioned these traditional performance practices into new genres that gave agency to its most powerless members." - Heather S. Nathans, Associate Professor, University of Maryland. |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 264 p. |
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9780230607927 9780230622715 : 0230622712 : |
| CLC: | I712.35 |
| Contents: | Theatrical Criminals and The Beggar's Opera * Circum-Atlantic Blackface Piracy in Polly * Pantomiming Caribbean Banditry in Three-Finger'd Jack * Renegades, Algerians, and Transnational Mobs in Slaves in Algiers * Yeomen, Mobs, and Patriotic Spectacle in The Glory of Columbia * Urban Scenes and Street Performance in Tom and Jerry * Nautical Melodrama and Mutiny in Black-Ey'd Susan * Slave Revolt and Heroic Melodrama in The Gladiator. |