| Description |
x, 262 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 18 |
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Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: around the world in eighty plays -- Imperial theatrics: spectacle and empire in the nineteenth century -- Pt. 1: Re-casting the castaway: the nineteenth-century theatrical robinsonade -- The novel is not enough: text and performance in the cataract of the ganges -- Adapting a nation to empire: the evolution of the Crusoe pantomime -- Crusoe's clothes: performing authority in the admirable Crichton -- Pt. 2: Theatrical nabobery: imperial wealth, masculinity, and metropolitan identities -- The stage nabob's eighteenth-century origins -- 'The yellow beams of his oriental countenance': the nabob as racial and cultural hybrid -- Australian gold rush plays and the Anglo-Indian nabob's antipodal antithesis -- Pt. 3: Staging the mutiny: ethnicity, masculinity, and imperial crisis -- India in the limelight: empire and the theatre of war -- The empire needs men: mutiny plays and the mobilization of masculinity -- Forging a greater Britain: the highland soldier and the renegotiation of ethnic alterities -- Conclusion: the Imperial encounter from stage to screen. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Imperialism -- Great Britain -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415889841 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0203819063 (master e-book) |
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9780203819067 (electronic bk.) |
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