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Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment

By David Worrall

Book information

Publisher
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Year
2007
ISBN
1851968512, 9781851968510, 9781851965366
Open Library ID
OL8972838M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2797784 bytes)
Series
The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century
Pages
266\273
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

David Worrall explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. Excluded from polite dramatic discourse, non-patent theatres produced harlequinades, melodrama, pantomimes and spectacles. Worrall argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment. Discussions about natural and civil rights, voyage and discovery, and Britain's relationship with other cultures were relentlessly enacted. Romantic period drama is a growing field for study. Worrall combines thorough historical analysis with an enjoyment of the vitality and diversity of the works discussed. This publication is printed on acid-free paper that conforms to the American National Standards for the Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials.

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