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London in a Box - Odai Johnson

London in a Box

Englishness and Theatre in Revolutionary America

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Buch | Softcover
294 Seiten
2017
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-60938-494-4 (ISBN)
CHF 89,90 inkl. MwSt
If one went looking for the tipping point in the run-up to the American Revolution, it would not be the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor, or the blockade of Boston by British warships, or even the gathering of the first Continental Congress; rather, it was the Congress’s decision in late October of 1774 to close the theatres. In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre troupe based in the British North American colonies. In doing so, he tells the story of how colonial elites came to decide they would no longer style themselves British gentlemen, but instead American citizens.

London in a Box chronicles the enterprise of David Douglass, founder and manager of the American Theatre, from the 1750s to the climactic 1770s. The ambitious Scotsman’s business was teaching provincial colonials to dress and behave as genteel British subjects. Through the plays he staged, the scenery and costumes, and the bearing of his actors, he displayed London fashion and London manners. He counted among his patrons the most influential men in America, from British generals and governors to local leaders, including the avid theatre-goers George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. By 1774, Douglass operated a monopoly of theatres in six colonies and the Anglophone Caribbean, from Jamaica to Charleston and northward to New York City. (Boston remained an impregnable redoubt against theatre.)

How he built this network of patrons and theatres and how it all went up in flames as the revolution began is the subject of this witty history. A treat for anyone interested in the world of the American Revolution and an important study for historians of the period.

Odai Johnson teaches and directs the doctoral program in the University of Washington's school of drama. His books include Rehearsing the Revolution: Radical Performance, Radical Politics in the English Restoration and Absence and Memory in Colonial American Theatre: Fiorelli's Plaster. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Studies in Theatre History & Culture
Zusatzinfo 3 images
Verlagsort Iowa
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-60938-494-6 / 1609384946
ISBN-13 978-1-60938-494-4 / 9781609384944
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