Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on performance histories vii
4. Chapter 1. “Family Quarrels” 1
5. Chapter 2. “Cutting Off Tongues” Multiethnic Spectacle and Ethnic Passing 43
6. Chapter 3. “Cheeld o’ Commerce” Merchants, Jews, and Fathers in a Commercial Nation 87
7. Chapter 4. “Circumcised Gentiles,” On Stage and Off 118
8. Chapter 5. Novel Performances and “the Slaves of Art” 139
9. Chapter 6. “For Our English Eyes” Regendering Ethnic Performance in the Novel 163
10. Chapter 7. New Scenes for Old Farces 195
11. Notes 213
12. Index 241
13. Acknowledgments 248