National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of Britishness on the Early Eighteenth-century Stage

by Marshall Louise H . (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $122.73

  Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification.