Entertaining the nation :

Miller, Tice L.

Entertaining the nation : American drama in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Tice L. Miller. - 1 online resource (251 pages). - Theater in the Americas .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.

British drama and the colonial American stage -- American drama of the new republic -- Drama in the age of Jackson -- The age of melodrama -- Realism and American drama.

9780809387489 (e-book)


American drama--History and criticism.--18th century
American drama--History and criticism.--Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
American drama--History and criticism.--19th century
English drama--History and criticism.--18th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.


United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
United States--In literature.


Electronic books.

PS343 / .M55 2007eb

812/.309