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Strolling Players of Empire

By Kathleen Wilson

Strolling Players of Empire Politics & History

Strolling Players of Empire

By Kathleen Wilson

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Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass Kingston, Calcutta, Fort Marlborough, St. Helena and Port Jackson as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural traditions through their own performances, as Englishness also became a production of non-English peoples across the globe.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
510
Release Date:
2025-06-19
Publication Date:
2025-06-19
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
110879081X
ISBN13:
9781108790819
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
731 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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