From Androboros to the First Amendment: A History of America's First Play

von Peter A. Davis

254 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Androboros, A Bographical [sic] Farce in Three Acts (1715), is acknowledged as the first play both written and printed in America. Its significance stems not simply from its publication but from its eventual impact. The play inadvertently laid the foundation for one of the defining rights of the nation that would eventually emerge some seventy-five years later—the First Amendment of the Constitution, guaranteeing a free press and freedom of expression.

• Reihe: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• ISBN: 9781609383114
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2015
• Größe: 226 x 147 mm
• Verlag: University of Iowa Press