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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Richards, Jeffrey H. Theater enough. Durham : Duke University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)645800964 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey H Richards |
| ISBN: | 0822311070 9780822311072 |
| OCLC Number: | 22422180 |
| Description: | xx, 335 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface: Toward a theatrics of culture -- Prologue: Democratic spectacles: Medium, message, and metaphor -- A theater of the world, to 1630. Politics, history, and theatrum mundi: some early formulations. American origins I: a theater of theaters. American origins II: a theater against theaters. Prospero in Virginia: the example of Captain John Smith -- The theater of faith, 1630-1730. A theater on a hill: Puritans and the rhetoric of performance. Playing the (trans)script: the antinomian crisis. Theatrou Mestoi: the example of Cotton Mather -- The theater of action, 1676-1776. The field or the stage: democracy, theater, and Anglo-American culture. Theater of blood: the rituals of Republican revolution. Providential actor: the example of John Adams -- The theater of glory, 1776-1789. A theater just erected: America at war. Play and earnest on the postwar stage. Stage metaphor and the New Republic -- Epilogue: Instant theater. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey H. Richards. |
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