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Perhaps the most significant development of the Georgian theater was its multiplication of ethnic, colonial, and provincial character types parading across the stage. In Theatrical Nation, Michael Ragussis opens up an archive of neglected plays and performances to examine how this flood of domestic and colonial others showcased England in general and London in particular as the center of an increasingly complex and culturally mixed nation and empire, and in this way illuminated the shifting identity of a newly configured Great Britain.In asking what kinds of ideological work these ethnic figures performed and what forms were invented to accomplish this work, Ragussis concentrates on the most popular of the "outlandish Englishmen," the stage Jew, Scot, and Irishman. Theatrical Nation understands these stage figures in the context of the government's controversial attempts to merge different ethnic and national groups through the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland, the Jewish Naturalization Bill of 1753, and the Act of Union with Ireland of 1800.Exploring the significant theatrical innovations that illuminate the central anxieties shared by playhouse and nation, Ragussis considers how ethnic identity was theatricalized, even as it moved from stage to print. By the early nineteenth century, Anglo-Irish and Scottish novelists attempted to deconstruct the theater's ethnic stereotypes while reimagining the theatricality of interactions between English and ethnic characters. An important shift took place as the novel's cross-ethnic love plot replaced the stage's caricatured male stereotypes with the beautiful ethnic heroine pursued by an English hero.

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English drama --- Théâtre anglais --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- Théâtre anglais --- English literature --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Restoration, 1660-1700 --- 18th century --- English drama - Restoration, 1660-1700 - History and criticism. --- English drama - 18th century - History and criticism. --- Tragédie anglaise --- 1660-1700 (Restauration) --- 18e siècle

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English literature --- Neoclassicism (Literature) --- Littérature anglaise --- Néoclassicisme (Littérature) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Johnson, Samuel, --- Shakespeare, William, --- English drama --- Classicism --- Theory, etc --- History --- Criticism and interpretation --- Littérature anglaise --- Néoclassicisme (Littérature) --- English drama - 18th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- Classicism - England - History - 18th century --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Criticism and interpretation - History - 18th century --- Johnson, Samuel, - 1709-1784 - Preface to Shakespeare's plays --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616

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Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history -- the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays.Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's ""audacious"" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which

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