Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789Duke University Press, 1991 - 335 頁 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. The rhetoric, or discourse, of early American theater emerged out of the figures of speech that permeated the colonists' lives and literary productions. Jeffrey H. Richards examines a variety of texts--histories, diaries, letters, journals, poems, sermons, political tracts, trial transcripts, orations, and plays--and looks at the writings of such authors as John Winthrop and Mercy Otis Warren. Richards places the American usage of theatrum mundi--the world depicted as a stage--in the context of classical and Renaissance traditions, but shows how the trope functions in American rhetoric as a register for religious, political, and historical attitudes. |
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... ( quoted in P. Smith , 1 : 391 ) . This echo of 1 Corinthians 4.9 reminds us of the curious interfusion in Puritan rhetoric of biblical images and theatrical language ; for the Connecticut writer ( possibly Israel Putnam ) , the Romanized ...
... ( quoted in P. Smith , 1 : 391 ) . This echo of 1 Corinthians 4.9 reminds us of the curious interfusion in Puritan rhetoric of biblical images and theatrical language ; for the Connecticut writer ( possibly Israel Putnam ) , the Romanized ...
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... ( quoted in P. Davidson , 293 ) . Odell would no doubt agree with fellow Tory poet Myles Cooper , who in The Patriots of North America ( 1775 ) decries what happens when the vulgar exceed their station ; these patriots , " half Knaves ...
... ( quoted in P. Davidson , 293 ) . Odell would no doubt agree with fellow Tory poet Myles Cooper , who in The Patriots of North America ( 1775 ) decries what happens when the vulgar exceed their station ; these patriots , " half Knaves ...
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... quoted in Kenyon , 17 ) . Luther Martin , an Antifederalist responding in the Maryland Journal to attacks that he has been two - faced , asserts that he " acted no ' contradictory parts on the great political stage ' " ( Jan. - Mar ...
... quoted in Kenyon , 17 ) . Luther Martin , an Antifederalist responding in the Maryland Journal to attacks that he has been two - faced , asserts that he " acted no ' contradictory parts on the great political stage ' " ( Jan. - Mar ...
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