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British Enlightenment Theatre - Dramatizing Difference (Paperback, New Ed)
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British Enlightenment Theatre - Dramatizing Difference (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular
eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion,
manners and party politics. Using the theatre as a means of
circulating and publicizing radical Enlightenment ideas, many plays
made passionate arguments for religious and cultural toleration,
and voiced protests against imperial invasion and forced conversion
of indigenous peoples by colonial Europeans. Irish and
labouring-class dramatists wrote plays, often set in the
countryside, attacking social and political hierarchy in Britain
itself. Another crucial but as yet unexplored aspect of early
eighteenth-century theatre is its connection to freemasonry.
Freemasons were pervasive as actors, managers, prompters,
scene-painters, dancers and musicians, with their own lodges,
benefit performances and particular audiences. In addition to
promoting the Enlightened agenda of toleration and cosmopolitanism,
freemason dramatists invented the new genre of domestic tragedy, a
genre that criticized the effects of commercial and colonial
capitalism.
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