TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ragussis,Michael
TI  - Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain
T2  - Haney Foundation Series
SN  - 9780812207934
AV  - PN2593 -- .R297 2010eb 
U1  - 792.0942/09033 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - English drama-18th century-History and criticism
KW  - Theater-Great Britain-History-18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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