Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789

by Jeffrey H. Richards

The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they developed an ideology of theater that expressed their sense of history, as well as their version of life in the New World. Theater Enough provides an innovative analysis of early American culture by examining the rhetorical shaping of the experience of settlement in the new land through the metaphor of theater.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822311070
• ISBN13: 9780822311072
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"