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Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714
Bridget Orr
出版Cambridge University Press, 2001-08-23
主題Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Modern / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / EasternLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / DramaLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / PoliticsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Culture, Race & EthnicityPerforming Arts / Theater / General
ISBN05217735049780521773508
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LIUHEPjEzRcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Contesting the argument 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 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 light on plays by Dryden, Orrery, Behn, Wycherley and Southerne but directs attention to popular but often 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.