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Wilmer Index More information Index abolition, 8 Alien and Sedition Acts, 55, 74, 76, 99 abortion, 151, 162, 164, 184 Alien Act, 99 Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Sedition Act, 59, 62 (aids), 14, 181, 183–186 Allegory, The (MacKaye), 100, 155 “Acres of Diamonds” speech (Conwell), Allen, Ethan, 48, 50 11, 99 American Communist Party, 103, 119 Across the Continent (McCloskey), 9 American Company, see London Act of Congress (1790), 9 Company of Comedians Action for Women in Theatre, 161 American Dream, The (Albee), 13 actor-managers, 156–157 American Dreams (Houston), 187 Actors Alliance of America, 158 American Federation of Labor (AFL), Actresses Franchise League, 156, 158 98, 109–110 Adams, Abigail, 39, 152 American Indians, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Adams, John, 39, 41, 43, 46–47, 152 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 25–26, 31, 49, 65, Adams, Samuel, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49 80–97, 101, 129, 131, 138, 144, 149, 166, Addison, Joseph, 18, 29, 40 175, 182, 183, 187, 193, 194, 196, 197, Adulateur, The (Warren), 39–40 198, 199 Aeschylus, 165 American Indian Movement (AIM), affirmative action, 173 129 African American, 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 99, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 129 100, 101, 127–129, 131, 132, 133–138, Court of Indian Offences, 82 149, 174, 178–181, 182, 185, 186, 187, Red Power (see American Indian 188, 189, 194 Movement), 131 agit-prop, 119, 125 religious intolerance, 83–84 Agrell, Alfhild, 157 Tribes: Arapaho, 86, 88, 92; Caddo, 86, aids, see Acquired Immune Deficiency 88; Cherokee, 9; Cheyenne, 86, 93; Syndrome Chichimec, 196; Chippewa, 83; Aiken, George L., 8 Comanche, 88; Kiowa, 86, 88; Alan’s Wife (Robins), 157 Lakota, 80–96: Teton Lakota: Albee, Edward, 13 Hunkpapa, 83, Itazipco, 83, Alfieri, Vittorio, 2 Minneconjou, 83, 95, Oglala, 83, 89, Alianza Federal de Mercedes, La (Federal 91, Oohinumpa, 83, Sicangu, 83, Alliance of Land Grants), 129 Sihasapa or Blackfeet, 83; © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521802644 - Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities S. E. Wilmer Index More information INDEX American Indians (cont.) Asian American, 13, 132, 174, 187, 189 Yankton Lakota, 87; Mohican, 183; assimilation, 82, 85–86, 94, 95, 97, 128, 132, Otomi,196; Paiute,85,87,88; Sachem, 133, 141, 174, 193 49; Shoshoni, 88; Sioux (see Lakota); anti-assimilation, 94, 95, 97, 140, 149 Tuscarora, 19, 43; Wichita, 86 Astor Place Riots, 8 “American jeremiad” (Berkovitch), 7 At the Foot of the Mountain, 163, 164, 168 American Me (Almos), 192 Augur, Gen. Christopher, 85 American Place Theatre, 152; see also Aztecs, 13, 131, 139, 143, 145, 149 Women’s Project American Revolution, 5, 11, 38–40, 47, 51, Baile de los Gigantes, El, 144 53, 56, 62, 68, 73, 74, 101, 152 Baptists, 99 American Woman: Six Periods of American Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 13, 131, Life (MacKaye), 155 132–139, 149 Americans Roused in a Cure for the Spleen, Barker, James Nelson, 6 The (Sewall), 35–38 Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, 104, 119 Ames, Fisher, 55, 75 Barre,´ Isaac, 48 Anderson, Benedict, 1, 2, 177, 189 Barrymore, Ethel, 153, 155 Anderson, Laurie, 169 Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, The Andre´ (Dunlap), 65–69, 76–79 (Rabe), 145 Andre,´ Major John, 65–69, 76–79 Basshe, Em Jo, 125 Androboros (Hunter), 20–21, 24, 34 Bates, Esther Willard, 100 Angels in America (Kushner), 14, 176, Battle of Little Bighorn, 94 181–187, 199 Beauty and the Beast, 169 Antony, Marc, 106 Beauvais, Bishop (Pierre Cauchon), 70–71 Anthony, Susan B., 153, 155 Bedford, Duke of, 70 Antigone (Sophocles), 167 Bell, Gertrude, 157 Antigone Too: Rites of Love and Defiance Belle Reprieve (Split Britches and (Boesing), 167 Bloolips), 170 anti-war demonstrations, 130, 131, 141–142, Belmont, Mrs. O. H. P., 160 145–148, 149 Belt, The (Sifton), 125 anti-war performances, 132, 142–143, Benmussa, Simone, 169 145–148, 149–150 Benny, Jack, 134 Anzaldua,´ Gloria, 195, 196, 199 Benston, Kimberly, 117–118 Aoki, Brenda Wong, 14, 176, 187, 189–194, Bent (Sherman), 14 196, 201 Berkovitch, Sacvan, 7 Appia, Adolphe, 103 Bernard, William Bayle, 7 Approaching Simone (Terry), 166 Bernhardt, Sarah, 156 Argus, The, 68–69, 78 Berrigan, Daniel, 145 Aristophanes, 156 Bhabha, Homi, 1, 15 Arm Yourself, or Harm Yourself! (Baraka), Bharucha, Rustom, 174–175 134 Bider, Haydee Tamara Bunke, 166 Arnold, Benedict, 51, 66, 67, 77, 78 Big Foot, 93, 95 As Is (Hoffman), 14 Bill of Rights, The, 5 Asa Ga Kimashita (Houston), 187 Bimson, Chief of Police, 110, 117 Ashley, Jessie, 124 Bird, Robert Montgomery, 7 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521802644 - Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities S. E. Wilmer Index More information INDEX Bits and Pieces ( Jacker), 165 Brown, William Wells, 8 Bjørnson, Bjornstjerne, 2 Building Bridges Not Walls (Smith, A.), 177 Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School in Bullins, Ed, 136 Harlem, 131, 134–135 Bunker-Hill; or, The Death of General Black Arts/West, Oakland, California Warren (Burk), 6, 53, 59–65, 66, 68, (Black House), 137 70, 73, 76, 77, 79 Black Arts/West, Seattle, Washington, Burgoyne, General, 47 137 Burk, John, 6, 53, 54, 56–57, 59–65, 68, Black Elk, 84, 89, 92–93 69–76, 77, 78, 79 Black House, 137 Burke, Edmund, 48 Black Ice (Patterson), 134, 135 Burke, Kenneth, 81 Black Mass (Baraka), 135 Burr, Aaron, 59 Black Nationalists, 13, 128–129, 133–134, 137, 149 Caldwell, Ben, 136 Black Panthers, 128, 129, 137 Camden, Lord (Charles Pratt), 48 Black Pit (Maltz), 100 Candida (Shaw, G. B.), 157, 159 Black Power, 128, 129, 131, 133, 149, 173 Candidates; or, The Humours of a Virginia Black Revolutionary Theatre, 13, 134, 136, Election, The (Munford), 27–29 138, 139, 149 capitalism, 11, 12, 13, 98, 99, 100, 101, 105, Blockade of Boston, The (Burgoyne), 47 107, 109, 119, 124, 125, 126, 133, 143, 199 “Blood for Blood” speech (Tresca), 107, Carby, Hazel, 174 115 Carlson, Marvin, 2 Bloolips, 170 Carmichael, Stokely, 128 Boesing, Martha, 163, 167 Carnegie steel plant strike, 98 Booth, Edwin, 156 Carnegie, Andrew, 98, 99 Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Carpa de los Rasquachis, La (Valdez and Fronterizo, 197 Teatro de Campesino), 145 Border Brujo (Gomez-Pe´ na),˜ 197–199, 200 Catholics, 4, 8, 11, 48, 49, 121, 166, 182, Boston Gazette, 46, 57, 58 186, 195, 196, 198 Boston Massacre, 39 Cato (Addison), 18, 29 Boston Tea Party, 19, 39, 43 Centuries, The (Basshe), 125 Boucicault, Dion, 8 Chaikin, Joseph, 164 Bourne, Bette, 170 Chapel Street Theatre, 17, 18 Bourne, Randolph, 123 Chautauquas, 11–12, 99–100, 111 Bowdoin, James, 41, 43 Chatham, Lord William, 48 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 31 Chavez,´ Cesar,´ 138 Brady, William A., 120 Checkley, John, 17 Brattle, William, 41, 43 Chicano Power, 131 Bread and Puppet Theatre, 145 Chicanos/as, 13, 129, 131–132, 138–145, 149, Brecht, Bertolt (Brechtian), 38, 70, 168, 173, 198–201 169 Chicomoztoc Mimixcoa – Cloud Serpents Broadway, 113, 125, 132, 145, 153, 155, 160, (Colorado Sisters), 196 161 child-labor, 110 Brougham, John, 9 Childress, Alice, 165 Brown, Gov. Edmund, 139 Chinese Exclusion Act, 11, 98 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521802644 - Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities S. E. Wilmer Index More information INDEX Chinoy, Helen, 161 Contemporaries (Steele), 124 Christians, 23, 24, 166, 180, 194, 195; Continental Congress, 17, 20, 32, 34–35, see also separate denominations 38, 47 Church of England, 16, 21, 22 Contrast, The (Tyler), 6 Church Street Theatre (Charleston), 17 Convert, The (Robins), 158 Churchill, Caryl, 169 Conwell, Russell, 99 Cihuacoatl (goddess), 195 Cooke, George, 230 Civil Rights Movement, 127–129, 137, 151, Cooke, Gen. Philip, 84 161, 173, 174, 187 Cooper, Samuel, 66 Civil War (American), 8, 10, 101, 130 Cortez, Hernando, 195, 199 Cixous, Hel´ ene,` 163 Cotter, Holland, 174 Clapp, William, 57, 58 counterculture movement, 130, 131, 149 Cleaver, Eldridge, 137 Counter-Inaugural March, 160 Close, Glenn, 172 Court Theatre, 157 Clothesline Project, 172 Courts of Inspection, 35 Cloud Nine (Churchill), 169 Craig, Edward Gordon, 103 Clurman, Harold, 100 Crandell, William, 146–148 Coatlicue (goddess), 195 Cromwellian rebellion, 22 Coatlicue Theatre Company (Colorado cross-dressing, 169–170 Sisters), 166, 194, 199 Crothers, Rachel, 153–154 Cold War, 127, 173 Crown Heights (New York) riots (1991), College of New Jersey (Princeton 178 University), 30 Crucible, The (Miller, A.), 13 College of Philadelphia (University of “cultural genocide” (Holler), 83 Pennsylvania), 29–31, 33 cultural imperialism, 96, 180, 198 College of William and Mary, 29 Current Opinion, 121 Colorado Sisters, 14, 176, 187, 194–196, 201 Custer, General George, 94 Colorado, Elvira, 194 Colorado, Hortensia, 194 Daily Picayune, 8 Columbia Centinel, 63–64 “daily plebiscite” (Renan), 2 Columbus (Morton), 63–64 Daly, Augustin, 9 Columbus, Christopher, 195, 197, 199, 200 Daniels, Sarah, 168 Comaroff, Jean and John, 81, 116 Darby’s Return (Dunlap), 65 Common Sense (Paine), 38, 48 Dashiki Project Theatre, 137 “communally helping out” (“methexis”), Daughter’s Cycle, The (Women’s 117 Experimental Theatre), 165 Communists, 103, 119, 125, 127, 141, 143, Davies, Reverend Samuel, 16 148, 186 Davy Crockett (Murdock), 7 Conboy, Sarah, 109–110 De Lauretis, Teresa, 167 Concept East, 137 Dead March (tune), 106, 114 Conduct of Life, The (Fornes), 168 Death of a Salesman (Miller, A.), 13 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 129 Debates at the Robin-Hood Society in the Conrad, Robert T., 7 City of New-York, On Monday Night Constant State of Desire, The (Finlay), 167 19th July, 1774, 34, 35, 36 Constitution of the United States, 5, 53, Debs, Eugene, 98 54, 76, 160 Defeat, The (Warren), 36, 39, 40–43 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521802644 - Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities S.