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 Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging
American Identities

Theatre has often served as a touchstone for moments of political change or national
definition and as a way of exploring cultural and ethnic identity. In this book Wilmer
selects key historical moments in American history and examines how the theatre, in
formal and informal settings, responded to these events. The book moves from the
Colonial fight for independence, through Native American struggles, the Socialist
Worker play, the Civil Rights Movement, and up to works of the last decade,
including Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. In addition to examining theatrical
events and play texts, Wilmer also considers audience reception and critical response.

s . e . w i l m e r is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and formerly Director of

the School of Drama. He has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University and
University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the faculty of the International
Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies, in Finland. He is editor of Portraits of Courage:
Plays by Finnish Women (Helsinki University Press, 1997) and of Beckett in Dublin
(Lilliput, 1992), among other works. Wilmer is also a playwright, with his works
performed at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Lincoln Center.
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA

General editor
Don B. Wilmeth, Brown University

Advisory board
C. W. E. Bigsby, University of East Anglia
Errol Hill, Dartmouth College
C. Lee Jenner, Independent critic and dramaturge
Bruce A. McConachie, University of Pittsburgh
Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut
Laurence Senelick, Tufts University

The American theatre and its literature are attracting, after long neglect, the crucial
attention of historians, theoreticians and critics of the arts. Long a field for isolated
research yet too frequently marginalized in the academy, the American theatre has
always been a sensitive gauge of social pressures and public issues. Investigations into its
myriad of shapes and manifestations are relevant to students of drama, theatre, literature,
cultural experience and political development.
The primary intent of this series is to set up a forum of important and original
scholarship in and criticism of American theatre and drama in a cultural and social
context. Inclusive by design, the series accommodates leading work in areas ranging from
the study of drama as literature to theatre histories, theoretical explorations, production
histories and readings of more popular or para-theatrical forms. While maintaining a
specific emphasis on theatre in the United States, the series welcomes work grounded
broadly in cultural studies and narratives with interdisciplinary reach. Cambridge Studies
in American Theatre and Drama thus provides a crossroads where historical, theoretical,
literary and biographical approaches meet and combine, promoting imaginative research
in theatre and drama from a variety of new perspectives.

books in the series

1. Samuel Hay, African American Theatre
2. Marc Robinson, The Other American Drama
3. Amy Green, The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Re-Invent the Classics
4. Jared Brown, The Theatre in American during the Revolution
5. Susan Harris Smith, American Drama: The Bastard Art
6. Mark Fearnow, The American Stage and the Great Depression
7. Rosemarie K. Bank, Theatre Culture in America, 1825–1860
8. Dale Cockrell, Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World
9. Stephen J. Bottoms, The Theatre of Sam Shepard
10. Michael A. Morrison, John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
11. Brenda Murphy, Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film,
and Television
12. Jorge Huerta, Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth
13. Roger A. Hall, Performing the American Frontier, 1870–1906
14. Brooks McNamara, The New York Concert Saloon: The Devil’s Own Nights
15. S. E. Wilmer, Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities
Theatre, Society and the Nation
Staging American Identities

S . E . W ILM E R
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 Contents

Acknowledgements page vii

Introduction 1

 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning

identity 16

 Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan

drama in nationalist trappings 53

 Independence for whom? American Indians and the

Ghost Dance 80

 The role of workers in the nation: the Paterson Strike

Pageant 98

 Staging social rebellion in the 1960s 127

 Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays 151

 Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation

in the 1990s 173

Notes 203
Select bibliography 250
Index 267

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