David Francis Taylor

Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Produktbeschreibung

This is first full-length study to consider Richard Brinsley Sheridan's theatrical and political commitments side by side. It offers a challenging new take on a misunderstood writer and presents important new insights into the relationship between theatre and parliament in the eighteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199642847
• ISBN-10: 0199642842
• Artikelnr.: 36454261

Autorenporträt

David Francis Taylor is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He studied at Universities of St. Andrews and Cambridge, and has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Studies, European Romantic Review , and New Theatre Quarterly. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook to the Georgian Playhouse (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Prologue: 'The Atlas of the Stage and State'
Part I: Representing (Mis)representations
1: First Principles: the American War and the 'Playwright Patriot'
2: 1. 'Gross Deceptions': Newspapers, Theatre, and the Propaganda War
Part II: Rhetorics of Atrocity
3: Tyranny in India; or, Britain's Character Lost. A Tragedy
4: 'Hear Me!': Pizarro and the Politics of Silence
Part III: Revolutionary Stage Effects
Managing Performance: State, Spectacle, Spectator
'A System of Terror': The Scenography of Incarceration
Epilogue: 'Sherry Andrews' and the Antitheatricality of Politics
Bibliography