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Hideous characters and beautiful pagans : performing Jewish identity on the antebellum American stage
- Title
- Hideous characters and beautiful pagans : performing Jewish identity on the antebellum American stage / Heather S. Nathans.
- Author
- Nathans, Heather S.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
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- Description
- vii, 282 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "While battling negative stereotypes, American Jews carved out new roles for themselves within the first theatrical entertainments in America. Jewish citizens were active as performers, playwrights, critics, managers, and theatrical shareholders, and often tied their involvement in these endeavors to the patriotic rhetoric of the young republic as they struggled to establish themselves in the new nation. Examining play texts, theatrical reviews, political discourse, and public performances of Jewish rights and rituals, Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans argues that Jewish stage types shed light on our understanding of the status of Jewish Americans during a critical historical period. Using an eclectic range of sources including theatrical reviews, diaries, letters, cartoons, portraiture, tax records, rumors flying around the tavern, and more, Heather S. Nathans has listened for the echoes of vanished audiences who witnessed and responded to these stereotypes onstage, from the earliest appearance of Shylock on an American stage in 1752 to Jewish theater artists on the eve of the Civil War. The book integrates social, political, and cultural histories, with an examination of those texts (both dramatic and literary) that shaped the stage Jew"--
- Subjects
- Theater > Political aspects
- Theater and society
- 1800-1899
- United States
- Jews > United States > Identity > History > 19th century
- Theater > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century
- History
- Theater and society > United States > History > 19th century
- DRAMA / Religious & Liturgical
- Jews > Identity
- Jews > Theater > United States > History > 19th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
- Jews in the performing arts
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
- Call Number
- MWED 17-1999
- ISBN
- 9780472130306
- 0472130307
- LCCN
- 2016042827
- OCLC
- 965761011
- Author
- Nathans, Heather S., author.
- Title
- Hideous characters and beautiful pagans : performing Jewish identity on the antebellum American stage / Heather S. Nathans.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- MWED 17-1999