Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (Early American Studies)

by JasonShaffer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $72.12

  Building on the eighteenth-century commonplace that the theater could be a school for public virtue, this book illustrates the connections between the popularity of theatrical performances in eighteenth-century British North America and the British and American national identities that colonial and Revolutionary Americans espoused.