Ragussis, Michael. <br/><br/>
Theatrical Nation :  Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (257 pages) 
 - Haney Foundation Series .
 - Haney Foundation Series .
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Note on Performance Histories -- Chapter One: "Family Quarrels" -- Chapter Two: "Cutting Off Tongues": Multiethnic Spectacle and Ethnic Passing -- Chapter Three: "Cheeld o' Commerce": Merchants, Jews, and Fathers in a Commercial Nation -- Chapter Four: "Circumcised Gentiles," On Stage and Off -- Chapter Five: Novel Performances and "the Slaves of Art" -- Chapter Six: "For Our English Eyes": Regendering Ethnic Performance in the Novel -- Epilogue: New Scenes for Old Farces -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. 
<br/><br/> Focusing on such popular figures as the stage Jew, Scot, and Irishman, Michael Ragussis reveals the crucial role the theater played in developing, maintaining, and questioning the ethnic stereotypes through which the identity of the English nation was defined. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812207934 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English drama-18th century-History and criticism.<br/>Theater-Great Britain-History-18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2593 -- .R297 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.0942/09033