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National myth and imperial fantasy : representations of British identity on the early eighteenth-century stage / Louise H. Marshall.

By: Marshall, Louise HMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: vii, 223 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0230573371 (hbk.); 9780230573376 (hbk.)Subject(s): English drama -- History and criticism | Colonies in literature | Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- In literatureDDC classification: 822.5093241

Contents:

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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	822.5093241 MAR/N (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P43077

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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

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