The 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 and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and kwledge about the other. The study explores well-kwn plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
V&R Unipress
ISBN-10
3899719689
ISBN-13
9783899719680
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190592302
Product Key Features
Author
Gunda Windmuller
Format
Sewn,Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Additional Product Features
Series Part/Volume Number
7
Series Title
Representations & Reflections
Date of Publication
31/08/2012
Country of Publication
Germany
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