Rogue Performances: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

by PeterP.Reed (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $82.00

  Rogue Performances recovers eighteenth and nineteenth-century American culture s fascination with outcast and rebellious characters. 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.