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In this survey of eighteenth and nineteenth hundred years American play, Tice L. Miller examines American plays written before a cannon was founded in American remarkable literature and analyses central to the culture that produced them. Amusing the Nation: American Theatre in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Decades evaluates plays in the early years of the republic, discloses shifts in flavour from the classical to the contemporary in the 1840s and 1850s, and considers the increasing influence of realism at the end of the nineteenth hundred years. Miller explores the relationship between American play and societal issues during this time period. While never completely dropping its English root base, says Miller, the American play tackled issues important on this aspect of the Atlantic such as egalitarianism, republicanism, immigration, slavery, the West, Wall Streets, and the Civil War. In taking into consideration the theme of egalitarianism, the volume notes Alexis de Tocqueville's observation in 1831 that equality was more important to Americans than liberty. Also tackled is the Yankee persona, which became a staple in American funny for much of the nineteenth hundred years. Miller analyzes several British plays and notes how David Garrick's reforms in London were transported over to the colonies. Garrick faced an increasingly middle-class open public, offers Miller, and experienced to make changes to plays also to his repertory to sketch an audience. The volume also talks about the transfer in play that paralleled the one in political electric power from the aristocrats who founded the nation to Jacksonian democrats. Miller traces how the proliferation of papers developed a demand for plays that reflected contemporary population and details how playwrights scrambled to place those icons of the outside world on stage to appeal to the public. Steamships and trains, slavery and adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and French affects are shown as popular subject matter during that time. Amusing the Land effectively describes the civilizing power of play in the establishment and development of the nation, ameliorating dissimilarities among the many theatergoing classes, and a microcosm of the changes on and off the stage in the us of these two centuries. The publication is posted by Southern Illinois College or university Press.
