Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714Cambridge University Press, 23/08/2001 - 350 من الصفحات Her account not only sheds new light on plays by Dryden, Orrery, Behn, Wycherley and Southerne but redirects attention to popular but now marginal texts by Settle, Sedley, Dennis and Charles Shadwell. Attention to the imperial themes of these dramatists decisively redraws the map of Restoration and early eighteenth-century drama."--Jacket. |
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Poetics Politics and Heroic | 28 |
The Ottomans on Stage 16601714 | 61 |
The Most Famous Monarchs of the East | 97 |
Spains Grand Project of a Universal Empire | 135 |
Utopian Plays of the Restoration | 188 |
Colonialism and Comedy | 212 |
Romans and Britons | 251 |
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action Amazons ambition ancient Aphra Aphra Behn argues Aureng-Zebe barbarous Behn Behn's black legend British Cambridge University Press celebrated Charles Charles Davenant Christian cited civil claims colonial comedy conflict Conquest corruption Critical cruelty cultural Davenant Davenant's depiction despotism discourse dramatists Dryden edition Eighteenth Century Elkanah Settle emphasizes empire Empress of Morocco England English Drama European exotic female figure French heroic drama heroic plays History imperial Indian Emperor Indies Islamic John King Liberty literary London military mode Montezuma nature Nicholas Rowe Oriental Oroonoko Ottoman Ottoman Empire Oxford Persian play's political prtd Queen quotations representation Restoration Restoration Comedy role Roman Roxalana Royal Rycaut Rymer scene Settle's seventeenth century sexual she-tragedy Siege of Rhodes slave society Solymon Spain Spanish Spanish empire stage Stuart successful Successful Pyrate suggests Tamerlane text by act tion trade Tragedy translatio imperii tropes Turkish Turks tyranny universal monarchy utopian virtue women World