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Scatological references, crude humor, bitter caricatures together with an easy wit and good humor characterize Governor Robert Hunter s satirical drama, Androboros, published in 1715 for his friends, about governing an unruly Assembly and placating the Anglican Church. Thanks to Peter Davis s From Androboros to the First Amendment, we have a context for identifying the political irritants as well as understanding the issues. Davis links the play with a 1735 legal decision on libel and with the writing of the First Amendment to argue that America s first drama should be regarded as an important historical document. Tice L. Miller, author, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries In a remarkable act of literary resurrection, Peter A. Davis brings America s first play back to critical and historical life, framing Governor Robert Hunter s scandalous Androboros in the melee of colonial politics, the tradition of Augustan satire, and the early American debate over free speech. Jason Shaffer, author, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater Scatological references, crude humor, bitter caricatures together with an easy wit and good humor characterize Governor Robert Hunter's satirical drama, Androboros, published in 1715 for his friends, about governing an unruly Assembly and placating the Anglican Church. Thanks to Peter Davis's From Androboros to the First Amendment, we have a context for identifying the political irritants as well as understanding the issues. Davis links the play with a 1735 legal decision on libel and with the writing of the First Amendment to argue that America's first drama should be regarded as an important historical document. --Tice L. Miller, author, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries In a remarkable act of literary resurrection, Peter A. Davis brings America's first play back to critical and historical life, framing Governor Robert Hunter's scandalous Androboros in the melee of colonial politics, the tradition of Augustan satire, and the early American debate over free speech. --Jason Shaffer, author, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater

Scatological references, crude humor, bitter caricatures together with an easy wit and good humor characterize Governor Robert Hunter s satirical drama, Androboros, published in 1715 for his friends, about governing an unruly Assembly and placating the Anglican Church. Thanks to Peter Davis s From Androboros to the First Amendment, we have a context for identifying the political irritants as well as understanding the issues. Davis links the play with a 1735 legal decision on libel and with the writing of the First Amendment to argue that America s first drama should be regarded as an important historical document. Tice L. Miller, author, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

"""In a remarkable act of literary resurrection, Peter A. Davis brings America's first play back to critical and historical life, framing Governor Robert Hunter's scandalous Androboros in the melee of colonial politics, the tradition of Augustan satire, and the early American debate over free speech.""--Jason Shaffer, author, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater ""Scatological references, crude humor, bitter caricatures together with an easy wit and good humor characterize Governor Robert Hunter's satirical drama, Androboros, published in 1715 for his friends, about governing an unruly Assembly and placating the Anglican Church. Thanks to Peter Davis's From Androboros to the First Amendment, we have a context for identifying the political irritants as well as understanding the issues. Davis links the play with a 1735 legal decision on libel and with the writing of the First Amendment to argue that America's first drama should be regarded as an important historical document.""--Tice L. Miller, author, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"

Scatological references, crude humor, bitter caricatures together with an easy wit and good humor characterize Governor Robert Hunter s satirical drama, <i>Androboros, </i> published in 1715 for his friends, about governing an unruly Assembly and placating the Anglican Church. Thanks to Peter Davis s <i>From Androboros to the First Amendment</i>, we have a context for identifying the political irritants as well as understanding the issues. Davis links the play with a 1735 legal decision on libel and with the writing of the First Amendment to argue that America s first drama should be regarded as an important historical document. Tice L. Miller, author, <i>Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries</i>

Scatological references, crude humor, bitter caricatures together with an easy wit and good humor characterize Governor Robert Hunter's satirical drama, Androboros, published in 1715 for his friends, about governing an unruly Assembly and placating the Anglican Church. Thanks to Peter Davis's From Androboros to the First Amendment, we have a context for identifying the political irritants as well as understanding the issues. Davis links the play with a 1735 legal decision on libel and with the writing of the First Amendment to argue that America's first drama should be regarded as an important historical document. --Tice L. Miller, author, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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Peter A. Davis is an associate professor of theatre at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, where he chairs the Theatre Studies program and is director of graduate studies. He specializes in the economic and cultural history of theatre in early America and eighteenth-century England. His articles and reviews have appeared in most of the major theatre history journals. He was also a contributor to the Cambridge History of the American Theatre, winner of the 1999 Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. He is a professional actor and director, and is an ensemble member with the award-winning Remy Bumppo Theatre Company of Chicago.

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