Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire

by Richard Foulkes

Book Overview

During the nineteenth century the performance of Shakespeare's plays contributed significantly to the creation of a sense of British nationhood at home and overseas. This was achieved through the enterprise of the commercial theatre rather that state subsidy and institutions. Britain had no National Theatre, but Shakespeare's plays were performed up and down the land from the fashionable West End to the suburbs of the capital and the expanding industrial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521034426
• ISBN13: 9780521034425
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"