Theater Enough : American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Richards, Jeffrey H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Geschichte 1607-1789.
Kultur
Welttheater
Literatur
Theater in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Metaphor.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
English literature > Early modern.
English literature.
Colonies in literature.
Civilization.
American literature > Colonial period.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
metaphor.
Metaphore.
Theâtre dans la litterature.
Colonies dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Metaphor
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
American literature > Revolution, 1775-1783 > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
USA.
United States.
English-speaking countries.
America.
Amerique > Dans la litterature.
États-Unis > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 1783.
America > In literature.
United States > Civilization > To 1783.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life > 17th century.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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