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Entertaining the nation : American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries /
In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Theater in the Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this survey of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American drama, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a canon was established in American dramatic literature and provides analyses central to the culture that produced them. Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, reveals shifts in taste from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century. Miller explores the r. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435663503 1435663500 9780809387489 0809387484 |