登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans
Heather Nathans
其他書名
Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 2017-03
主題
Drama / General
Drama / Religious & Liturgical
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Jewish
Literary Criticism / Drama
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Religion
Performing Arts / Theater / General
Religion / Judaism / General
Social Science / Jewish Studies
ISBN
0472130307
9780472130306
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BCRCDgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
SAMPLE
註釋
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.