Rushing into Floods
Subtitle: Staging the Sea in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Drama
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9783899719680
Subjects: Sea in literature; Theater, great britain, history; English drama, history and criticism, 18th century
Description: HauptbeschreibungThe dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on 'staging the sea' in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact.