Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray
Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray

Author: Judith Sargent Murray

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0195078837

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* Includes selections from The Gleaner, her major work, and other publications As a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed feminist, she urged American women to enter a 'new era in female history', yet published her own writings under a man's name in the hopes of more widely disseminating her ideas.

Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic

Author: Jeffrey H. Richards

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1139448048

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Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic investigates the way in which theatre both reflects and shapes the question of identity in post-revolutionary American culture. In this 2005 book Richards examines a variety of phenomena connected to the stage, including closet Revolutionary political plays, British drama on American boards, American-authored stage plays, and poetry and fiction by early Republican writers. American theatre is viewed by Richards as a transatlantic hybrid in which British theatrical traditions in writing and acting provide material and templates by which Americans see and express themselves and their relationship to others. Through intensive analyses of plays both inside and outside of the early American 'canon', this book confronts matters of political, ethnic and cultural identity by moving from play text to theatrical context and from historical event to audience demography.