Nineteenth-century theatre and the Imperial encounter / Marty Gould.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gould, Marty, 1972- author.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 18.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Theater.

English drama--19th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Theater and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Theater and society.

Imperialism--Great Britain--History.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital's theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative direction of the sort found in novels and travelogues, theatregoers were left to their own interpretive devices, making imperial drama both a powerful

Contents:

Introduction: around the world in eighty plays

Imperial theatrics: spectacle and empire in the nineteenth century

Pt. 1: Re-casting the castaway: the nineteenth-century theatrical robinsonade

The novel is not enough: text and performance in the cataract of the ganges

Adapting a nation to empire: the evolution of the Crusoe pantomime

Crusoe's clothes: performing authority in the admirable Crichton

Pt. 2: Theatrical nabobery: imperial wealth, masculinity, and metropolitan identities

The stage nabob's eighteenth-century origins

'The yellow beams of his oriental countenance': the nabob as racial and cultural hybrid

Australian gold rush plays and the Anglo-Indian nabob's antipodal antithesis

Pt. 3: Staging the mutiny: ethnicity, masculinity, and imperial crisis

India in the limelight: empire and the theatre of war

The empire needs men: mutiny plays and the mobilization of masculinity

Forging a greater Britain: the highland soldier and the renegotiation of ethnic alterities

Conclusion: the Imperial encounter from stage to screen.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613151278

9781136740534

1136740538

9781136740541

1136740546

9781283151276

1283151278

9780203819067

0203819063

OCLC:

730151665