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Theatrical Nation : Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Haney Foundation SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812207934
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theatrical NationDDC classification:
  • 792.0942/09033
LOC classification:
  • PN2593 -- .R297 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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