Harlequin empire [electronic resource] : race, ethnicity and the drama of the popular Enlightenment / by David Worrall.
2007
PR708.E88 W67 2007eb
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Title
Harlequin empire [electronic resource] : race, ethnicity and the drama of the popular Enlightenment / by David Worrall.
Author
Worrall, David.
ISBN
9781851965366 electronic bk
9781851968510
1851968512
9781851968510
1851968512
Imprint
London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (266 p.)
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PR708.E88 W67 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.509355
Summary
"Harlequin Empire explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Drury 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-256) and index.
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Enlightenment world.
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Harlequin empire.
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Table of Contents
The theatrical network
The representation of race on the Georgian stage
James Hewlett, Ira Aldridge and The Death of Christophe, King of Hayti
Islamic India restored: El Hyder and Tippoo Saib at the Royal Coburg Theatre
The North African Islamic states on the British and American stage
Pacific pantomimes: Omai, or, A Trip Around the World and The Death of Captain Cook
Colonists, convicts, settlers and natives: La Perouse, Pitcairn's Island and Van Diemen's land!
The representation of race on the Georgian stage
James Hewlett, Ira Aldridge and The Death of Christophe, King of Hayti
Islamic India restored: El Hyder and Tippoo Saib at the Royal Coburg Theatre
The North African Islamic states on the British and American stage
Pacific pantomimes: Omai, or, A Trip Around the World and The Death of Captain Cook
Colonists, convicts, settlers and natives: La Perouse, Pitcairn's Island and Van Diemen's land!