Bridget Orr

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714

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Produktbeschreibung

Contesting the current consensus that Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama referred almost exclusively to domestic social and political issues, Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 shows that the theatre was a crucial location for debates over England's contemporaneous colonial expansion. The book provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and ethnicity on stage. Joining current historical discussions of the development of British imperial ideology, Bridget Orr argues that dramatic texts and production provide a rich and unexamined archive in which the issues attendant on the emergence of the first empire figure largely. Her account not only sheds new light on plays by Dryden, Orrery, Behn, Wycherley, and Southerne but redirects attention to popular but now marginal texts by Settle, Sedley, Dennis and Charles Shadwell. Attention to the imperial themes of these dramatists decisively redraws the map of Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama.

Table of contents:
1. New habits on the stage; 2. Enlarging the poet's empire: poetics, politics and heroic plays, 1660-1717; 3. The great Turks: the Ottomans on stage, 1660-1714; 4. The most famous monarchs of the East; 5. Spain's grand project of a universal empire; 6. Brave new worlds: Utopian plays in the Restoration; 7. The customs of the country: colonialism and comedy; 8. Romans and Britons; Conclusion.

Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714 analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. It provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and ethnicity on stage.

Analyzes Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 738g
• ISBN-13: 9780521773508
• ISBN-10: 0521773504
• Artikelnr.: 21602901

Autorenporträt

Bridget Orr is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Fordham University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. New habits on the stage
2. Enlarging the poet's empire: poetics, politics and heroic plays, 1660-1714
3. The great Turks: the Ottomans on stage, 1660-1714
4. The most famous monarchs of the East
5. Spain's grand project of a universal empire
6. Brave new worlds: Utopian plays of the Restoration
7. The customs of the country: colonialism and comedy
8. Romans and Britons
Conclusion
Notes
Works cited
Index.