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"Well-researched and discerning...Rogue Performances represents the best of scholarship in early American theatre." - Theatre Journal
"Beyond its apparent topics, Rogue Performances delivers the substrata that refigure American literature, drama, performance studies, and class dynamics. Despite official suppression, rogue acts remain widespread and lively in both the archives and popular behavior. Reed's stunning research and close analyses prove that curtains and footlights, costumes and conventions, do not separate performance from publics but knot them together. Rogue Performances shows how we act American." - W. T. Lhamon, Jr., Lecturer in American Studies, Smith College and author of Raising Cain
"Combining rich archival research and imaginative analysis, Reed offers scholars alternate ways to read the role of underclass figures often marginalized in or excluded from familiar histories of American theatre. Rogue Performances explores both traditional theatrical events (such as Rowson's Slaves in Algiers, Bird's The Gladiator, or blackface minstrel shows), as well as those impromptu performances that exploded within and outside playhouse walls. In each case, Reed pays careful attention to the rogue characters who used their performances to claim a new kind of freedom. Reed situates his rogues (sailors, slaves, working class laborers) in a circum-Atlantic context that underscores the debt American underclass performance culture owed to its European and African ancestors. He also illuminates the ways in which the crucible of American society refashioned these traditional performance practices into new genres that gave agency to its most powerless members." - Heather S. Nathans, Associate Professor, University of Maryland
About the author
PETER P. REEDÂ is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Mississippi, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rogue Performances
Book Subtitle: Staging the Underclasses in Early American Theatre Culture
Authors: Peter P. Reed
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622715
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Peter P. Reed 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60792-7Published: 14 July 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37466-3Published: 14 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-62271-5Published: 22 June 2009
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 249
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Environment, general, Theatre History, US History, Modern History