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.