Question

A popular type of character who displayed American common sense by outwitting sophisticated foreigners was called the _____.

Answer 1

Answer: Stage Yankee

Explanation: The Stage Yankee was a popular type of character that was showing on the American stage in the 19th century in theatres. It was an ideal character with an idiosyncratic speech.

He was also called as a surrealistic mixture of naive and also cunning and a folk hero of an American drama. Some of the Yankee actors were James Hackett, Dan Marble, and Joshua Silsbee and they were played in plays such as Forest Rose, The Pilot and Cut and Come Again.

Answer 2

Answer:

A popular type of character who displayed American common sense by outwitting sophisticated foreigners was called the stage Yankee.

Explanation:

The "stage Yankee" was an early American stage stock character, said to start with Jonathan's character in The Contrast (1787) by Royall Tyler. Federal America was eager to develop nationalistic icons, and the Yankee type was ideal with its unconscious bearing, original pride, and idiosyncratic speech. The Yankee man was a combination of naivete and cunning. He always got the better in a trade or deal, but in fashion, language, and politics he was childishly naive.