Add to ORKGLet the actors be well used, Hamlet cried to Polonius, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. William Shakespeare s statement concerning the nature of theater in early-seventeenth-century England also held true in Jacksonian Lexington, Kentucky In this period of great political discord, aristocratic Whigs battled democratic Jacksonians not only for immediate political supremacy, but also over the nation\u27s direction. Historians have used traditional sources to analyze the conflicts of this era, but the popular culture of the time remains largely unexplored. Theater in the 1830s constituted the apex of this culture, the most important form of commercial entertainment according to historian James Dormon. Popular c...
Left political critics such as Cultural Materialists are now often rather hostile towards Shakespear...
This dissertation uses the reading patterns of New York’s earliest elites, including a significant p...
The purpose of this thesis was to examine William Shakespeare’s role in American ideology. Utilizing...
435 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.My analysis is organized chro...
Shakespeare Offstage: Drama and Cultural Currency, 1603-1660 argues that the Shakespearean theater p...
Sovereign Pleasures argues that comic performance was central to the imperfectly democratizing publi...
It was no coincidence that commercial theater, a market society, the British middle class, and the "...
Theater productions were born out of a paradox in the United States of the Revolutionary War and sho...
This dissertation investigates Shakespeare\u27s presence in nineteenth-century American culture and ...
Whether moralistic or satirical, the plays of the American Revolution offer unique insights into the...
This study of political rhetoric contained in newspapers, journals and speeches suggests that the po...
In 1776, America became the first nation in the modern world to declare its independence from the mo...
During the American Revolution (1775–1783) public speaking and the theater were an important part of...
This article examines the intersection between theatrical and political discourse in early modern En...
Mark Cheathem’s The Coming of Democracy, which examines the beginnings of the nation’s turn toward c...
Left political critics such as Cultural Materialists are now often rather hostile towards Shakespear...
This dissertation uses the reading patterns of New York’s earliest elites, including a significant p...
The purpose of this thesis was to examine William Shakespeare’s role in American ideology. Utilizing...
435 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.My analysis is organized chro...
Shakespeare Offstage: Drama and Cultural Currency, 1603-1660 argues that the Shakespearean theater p...
Sovereign Pleasures argues that comic performance was central to the imperfectly democratizing publi...
It was no coincidence that commercial theater, a market society, the British middle class, and the "...
Theater productions were born out of a paradox in the United States of the Revolutionary War and sho...
This dissertation investigates Shakespeare\u27s presence in nineteenth-century American culture and ...
Whether moralistic or satirical, the plays of the American Revolution offer unique insights into the...
This study of political rhetoric contained in newspapers, journals and speeches suggests that the po...
In 1776, America became the first nation in the modern world to declare its independence from the mo...
During the American Revolution (1775–1783) public speaking and the theater were an important part of...
This article examines the intersection between theatrical and political discourse in early modern En...
Mark Cheathem’s The Coming of Democracy, which examines the beginnings of the nation’s turn toward c...
Left political critics such as Cultural Materialists are now often rather hostile towards Shakespear...
This dissertation uses the reading patterns of New York’s earliest elites, including a significant p...
The purpose of this thesis was to examine William Shakespeare’s role in American ideology. Utilizing...