Introduction: "advancing the interests of private and political virtue": the stakes of the early American stage -- "The imitation of life": how men act -- American actors/acting American -- "O patriotism!/ thou wond'rous principle of God-like action!": the changing meanings of the Revolution -- Love and death: staging indigenous masculinity -- Tyrants, republicans, and rebels: performing Roman masculinities -- Epilogue: from sons of liberty to wage slaves
Summary
In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Spectacular Men places the theatre at the center of the self-creation of working white men, as voters, as workers, and as Americans
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2017)