Title Performing patriotism : national identity in the colonial and revolutionary American theater / Jason Shaffer.

Publication Info.	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
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Description	230 pages ; 24 cm.
Series	Early American studies
	Early American studies.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-218) and index.
Contents	Theater, nation, and state in early America -- Cato and company : a genealogy of performance -- Free-born poeples : the politics of professional theater in early America -- A school for patriots : colonial college theater -- Bellicose letters : propaganda plays of the Revolution -- Epilogue : Post-revolutionary patriotism and the American theater.
Subject	Theater -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Theater.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	American drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	American drama.
	Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Theater and society.
	Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Nationalism and literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Patriotism in literature.
	Patriotism in literature.
	United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Literature and the revolution.
ISBN	9780812240245 hardback
	0812240243 hardback