ISBN:
9781108479783
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 480 Seiten
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Series Statement:
Critical perspectives on empire
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wilson, Kathleen Strolling players of empire
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wilson, Kathleen Strolling players of empire
DDC:
306.4/8480941
Keywords:
Traveling theater Political aspects 18th century
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History
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Theater and society History 18th century
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English drama History and criticism 18th century
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National characteristics, British, in literature
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Hegemony
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Cultural relations
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Great Britain Colonies 18th century
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History
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Great Britain Civilization 18th century
Abstract:
Prologue: Strollers without borders -- Introduction: Britain's theatrical empire -- Peripheralizing the spheres : theatrical assemblages of the imperial provinces -- Rowe's Fair penitent as global history : colonial family strategies and the imperatives of nation -- The lure of the other : Jews, Nabobs and enslaved Africans in a transcolonial imaginary -- Performances of freedom : Jamaican Maroons in imperial transit -- Blackface empire : or, the slavery meridian -- Zanga's colony : revenge in Sydney -- Performing the wonder in Sumatra : theatrical ethnography in a New World history -- In conclusion: Napoleonic Gothic, or St. Helena as center of the British world.
Abstract:
"This book tracks some of the novel and colorful journeys that British theatre embarked upon over the course of the eighteenth century, from nation to empire and back again. It examines unstudied circuits of theatrical performance extending across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass London, Kingston (and other urban centers of Jamaica), Calcutta, Fort Marlborough (Sumatra), St. Helena and Port Jackson (New South Wales), as well as London and archipelagic provincial towns. In each space, the performance of British drama helped consolidate a national and imperial culture that was being forged both within and beyond the nation's borders. Yet in crisscrossing political and oceanic boundaries, and circulating texts, bodies, ideas and practices meant to incarnate the best of the English, and, secondarily, British character, the stage also mobilized competing ideas about authority, cultural difference and national belonging that emanated from the small as well as the great across the flow of practices of everyday life in Britain's expansive domains. Retailing historical myths and collective fantasies, including the helpful if fictive notion of a "national character" itself, theatre was the ultimate emblem of English cultural and racial capital in an age of sail, seizing the imaginations and animating the actions of British subjects and their others ceaselessly traversing the globe"--
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