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TY  - BOOK
PB  - University of Michigan Press
SE  - 284 pp.
CY  - Ann Arbor
ID  - aaam83
T1  - Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States
AU  - Mielke, Laura L
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Examines nineteenth-century American theater as arena for antislavery rhetoric. Discusses underlying theatricality in debate over slavery before American Civil War. Considers citations from Hamlet and Merchant of Venice deployed in slavery debate. Discusses Shakespearean actors of Antebellum era such as Edwin Forrest. 
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