Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660 - 1800: Identity, Performance, Empire

by Mita Choudhury

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611481228
• ISBN13: 9781611481228
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 217 Pages