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Article: Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson: into the hands of the People.(Book Review)
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- Theatre History Studies
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- June 1, 2004
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Early American Theatre from the Revolution to Thomas Jefferson: Into the hands of the People. By Heather S. Nathans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. pp. xi + 246. $70.00
Heather S. Nathans is interested in the interplay between cultural and political developments as the American Revolution unfolded, and in its aftermath the conflicting ideas of "nation" as viewed by the Republicans and the Federalists. She believes that the "American theater emerged as a cultural product of conflicting ideas of nationalism--shaped by 'the hands of the people' into a uniquely American mold" (1). She seems to have read everything from William Dunlap's History of the ...