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National Myth and Imperial Fantasy
Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage
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National Myth and Imperial Fantasy
Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage
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Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification.
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Theatre History & CriticismTable of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Dramatising Britain â Nation, Fantasy and the London Stage, 1719â1745
- 1 Ancient Britons and Liberty
- 2 Kings, Ministers and Favourites: the National Myth in Peril
- 3 Shakespeare, the National Scaffold
- 4 Britain, Empire and Julius Caesar
- 5 Turks, Christians and Imperial Fantasy
- Conclusion: History, Fantasy and the Staging of Britishness
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index