National myth and imperial fantasy : representations of British identity on the early eighteenth-century stage /
Marshall, Louise H.
National myth and imperial fantasy : representations of British identity on the early eighteenth-century stage / Louise H. Marshall. - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - vii, 223 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-219) and index.
Introduction: Dramatising Britain - Nation, Fantasy
and the London Stage, 1719-1745
Historicising identities and staging the nation's histories
Instability and fantasy: the politics of theatre
Prohibiting the nation's commentator
1 Ancient Britons and Liberty
The nation's ancient liberty
National identity
Parliament as the protector of liberty
2 Kings, Ministers and Favourites: the National
Myth in Peril
Favouritism and patriotism
The favourite and the sovereign
Representations of Walpole in The Fall of Mortimer (1731)
and The Fall of the Earl of Essex (1731)
The fall of the favourite
3 Shakespeare, the National Scaffold
Jacobite incursions and dramatic interventions
Homogenising a nation of difference
Patriot women, validating the myth
Shakespearean patriot heroines as idealised Britons
4 Britain, Empire and Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar rewritten
Caesar and the patriot fantasy
Rewriting patriotism: a model for British colonialism?
Protestant Britain: ..ng colonial fantasy
5 Turks, Christians and Imperial Fantasy
Rewriting the demon Turk
Liberty and consent
How to govern an empire: Briton tum'd Turk?
Turk turn'd Christian: authorising Protestant colonialism
Penitent Turks/libidinous Christians
Conclusion: History, Fantasy and the Staging of Britishness
Histories of Britishness
Staging Britishness
Modern fantasies
0230573371 (hbk.) 9780230573376 (hbk.)
English drama--History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain
Great Britain--In literature.
822.5093241 / MAR/N
National myth and imperial fantasy : representations of British identity on the early eighteenth-century stage / Louise H. Marshall. - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - vii, 223 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-219) and index.
Introduction: Dramatising Britain - Nation, Fantasy
and the London Stage, 1719-1745
Historicising identities and staging the nation's histories
Instability and fantasy: the politics of theatre
Prohibiting the nation's commentator
1 Ancient Britons and Liberty
The nation's ancient liberty
National identity
Parliament as the protector of liberty
2 Kings, Ministers and Favourites: the National
Myth in Peril
Favouritism and patriotism
The favourite and the sovereign
Representations of Walpole in The Fall of Mortimer (1731)
and The Fall of the Earl of Essex (1731)
The fall of the favourite
3 Shakespeare, the National Scaffold
Jacobite incursions and dramatic interventions
Homogenising a nation of difference
Patriot women, validating the myth
Shakespearean patriot heroines as idealised Britons
4 Britain, Empire and Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar rewritten
Caesar and the patriot fantasy
Rewriting patriotism: a model for British colonialism?
Protestant Britain: ..ng colonial fantasy
5 Turks, Christians and Imperial Fantasy
Rewriting the demon Turk
Liberty and consent
How to govern an empire: Briton tum'd Turk?
Turk turn'd Christian: authorising Protestant colonialism
Penitent Turks/libidinous Christians
Conclusion: History, Fantasy and the Staging of Britishness
Histories of Britishness
Staging Britishness
Modern fantasies
0230573371 (hbk.) 9780230573376 (hbk.)
English drama--History and criticism.
Colonies in literature.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain
Politics and literature--History--Great Britain
Great Britain--In literature.
822.5093241 / MAR/N