Interculturalism and resistance in the London theater, 1660-1800
Subtitle: identity, performance, empire
By: Mita Choudhury.
Series: The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lewisburg [Pa.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.; Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.; English drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Other titles: Interculturalism and resistance
Description: "In Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, Mita Choudhury argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy.

By strategic consideration of political and intellectual alliances that the theater inspired and stifled, and through discussions of a wide cross-section of performance practices from the time of Dryden to that of Inchbald, Choudhury demonstrates the power of performativity in a culture in ascendancy. She argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance.

In an original contribution to criticism, Interculturalism and Resistance demonstrates the eighteenth-century theatrical culture's ambivalence toward what has recently been described as the "exoticism of multiculturalism.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211)  and index.