Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Taylor, David FrancisAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
This study considers Richard Brinsley Sheridan's theatrical and political commitments side by side. It offers a challenging new take on a misunderstood writer and presents important new insights into the relationship between theatre and parliament in the 18th century.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This study considers Richard Brinsley Sheridan's theatrical and political commitments side by side. It offers a challenging new take on a misunderstood writer and presents important new insights into the relationship between theatre and parliament in the 18th century.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 19, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : 'The atlas of the stage and state' -- Representing (mis)representation. First principles : the American war and the 'playwright patriot' ; 'Gross deceptions' : newspapers, theatre, and the propaganda war -- Rhetorics of atrocity. Tyranny in India, or, Britain's character lost : a tragedy ; 'Hear me!' : Pizarro and the politics of silence -- Revolutionary stage effects. Managing performance : state, spectacle, spectators ; 'Systems of terror' : the scenography of incarceration -- Epilogue : 'Sherry Andrews' and the antitheatricality of politics.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Politics and literature
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature