Screen LibraryTheatrical nation : jews and other outlandish englishmen in georgian britain /
Focusing on such popular figures as the stage Jew, Scot, and Irishman, Michael Ragussis reveals the crucial role the theater played in developing, maintaining, and questioning the ethnic stereotypes through which the identity of the English nation was defined.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Haney foundation series
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| Summary: |
Focusing on such popular figures as the stage Jew, Scot, and Irishman, Michael Ragussis reveals the crucial role the theater played in developing, maintaining, and questioning the ethnic stereotypes through which the identity of the English nation was defined. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 10 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812207934 |
| Index Number: | PN2593 |
| CLC: | J809.561 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on performance histories -- Chapter 1. "Family Quarrels" -- Chapter 2. "Cutting Off Tongues" Multiethnic Spectacle and Ethnic Passing -- Chapter 3. "Cheeld o Commerce" Merchants, Jews, and Fathers in a Commercial Nation -- Chapter 4. "Circumcised Gentiles," On Stage and Off -- Chapter 5. Novel Performances and "the Slaves of Art" -- Chapter 6. "For Our English Eyes" Regendering Ethnic Performance in the Novel -- Chapter 7. New Scenes for Old Farces -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |