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Strolling players of empire : theater and performances of power in the British imperial provinces, 1656-1833

Title

Strolling players of empire : theater and performances of power in the British imperial provinces, 1656-1833 / Kathleen Wilson.

Author

Wilson, Kathleen

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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Description

xvi, 480 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Critical perspectives on empire

Uniform Title

Critical perspectives on empire.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

NCOM 23-675

ISBN

9781108479783
1108479782

LCCN

2022011794

OCLC

1334896152

Author

Wilson, Kathleen, author.

Title

Strolling players of empire : theater and performances of power in the British imperial provinces, 1656-1833 / Kathleen Wilson.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical perspectives on empire

Critical perspectives on empire.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Other Form:

Online version: Wilson, Kathleen. Strolling players of empire Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781108786317 (DLC) 2022011795

Research Call Number

NCOM 23-675

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