National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage

Name: National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan UK
SKU: 9781349364589
Price: 49.49 USD
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Marshall, Louise H.

Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification.