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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.
Theater --- English drama --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- English drama - 18th century - History and criticism --- Cultural Studies. --- Jewish Studies. --- Literature.
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Women in the theater --- Great Britain --- History --- 19th century --- Women and literature --- 18th century --- English drama --- History and criticism --- Theater --- Romanticism --- Women authors --- Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century.
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Theatrical science --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- Theater --- English drama --- History --- History and criticism --- Théâtre --- Théâtre anglais --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Theater - Great Britain - History - 17th century --- English drama - 18th century - History and criticism --- English drama - 17th century - History and criticism
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In the early eighteenth century, the benefit performance became an essential component of commercial music-making in Britain. Benefits, adapted from the spoken theatre, provided a new model from which instrumentalists, singers, and composers could reap financial and professional rewards. Benefits could be given as theatre pieces, concerts, or opera performances for the benefit of individual performers; or in aid of specific organizations. The benefit changed Britain's musico-theatrical landscape during this time and these special performances became a prototype for similar types of events in other European and American cities. Indeed, the charity benefit became a musical phenomenon in its own right, leading, for example, to the lasting success of Handel's Messiah. By examining benefits from a musical perspective - including performers, audiences, and institutions - the twelve chapters in this collection present the first study of the various ways in which music became associated with the benefit system in eighteenth-century Britain.
Music --- Theater --- Benefit performances --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- History and criticism --- Music - Great Britain - 18th century - History and criticism --- Theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Benefit performances - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 18th century
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National characteristics [English ] in literature --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Criticism and interpretation - History - 18th century. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Criticism and interpretation - History - 17th century. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Appreciation - Great Britain. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Stage history - 1625-1800. --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Adaptations. --- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Authorship. --- Theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century. --- Theater - Great Britain - History - 17th century. --- Shakespeare, William
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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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