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Author:

Gould, Marty, 1972-

Title:

Nineteenth century theatre and the Imperial encounter / Marty Gould.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English drama--19th century--History and criticism.
Theater and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Imperialism--Great Britain--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction : around the world in eighty plays -- Imperial theatrics: spectacle and empire in the nineteenth century -- Re-casting the castaway : the nineteenth-century theatrical robinsonade -- The novel is not enough : text and performance in the cataract of the ganges -- Adapting a nation to empire : the evolution of the Crusoe pantomime -- Crusoe's clothes : performing authority in the admirable Crichton -- Theatrical nabobery : imperial wealth, masculinity, and metropolitan identities -- The stage nabob's eighteenth-century origins -- The yellow beams of his oriental countenance : the nabob as racial and cultural hybrid -- Australian gold rush plays and the Anglo-Indian nabob's antipodal antithesis -- Staging the mutiny : ethnicity, masculinity, and imperial crisis -- India in the limelight : empire and the theatre of war -- The empire needs men : mutiny plays and the mobilization of masculinity -- Forging a greater Britain : the highland soldier and the renegotiation of ethnic alterities -- Conclusion : the Imperial encounter from stage to screen.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 18

ISBN:

0203819063 (e-book)
9780203819067 (e-book)
0415889847 (alk. paper)
9780415889841 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)671700669

LCCN:

2010043933

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)