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Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit

Resurrecting the First Great American Play: Imperial Politics and Colonial Ambitions in Frontier Detroit

Ludwig, Sämi

Hardcover

Colonial Period (1600-1775)Theater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 0299325407
ISBN13: 9780299325404
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Feb 18 2020
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac (also spelled Ponteach) led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power in the Great Lakes region. This event was immortalized in the play Ponteach, or the Savages of America: A Tragedy, attributed to the infamous frontier soldier Robert Rogers. Never performed, it is one of the earliest theatrical renderings of the region, depicting its hero in a way that called into question eighteenth-century constructions of Indigenous Americans.

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