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Theatrical nation : Jews and other outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ragussis, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Note on performance histories
  • One: "Family quarrels"
  • Two: "Cutting off tongues": Multiethnic spectacle and ethnic passing
  • Three: "Cheeld o'Commerce": Merchants, Jews, and fathers in a commercial nation
  • Four: "Circumcised Gentiles," On stage and off
  • Five: Novel performances and "the Slaves of Art"
  • Six: "For our English eyes": Regendering ethnic performance in the novel
  • Epilogue: New scenes for old farces.