Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714

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Cambridge University Press, 23. 8. 2001 - Počet stran: 350
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
Works Cited
323
Index
345
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O autorovi (2001)

Bridget Orr is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Fordham University.

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