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Theatres of Opposition - Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hardcover)
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Theatres of Opposition - Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Hardcover)
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan is best known as the author of two of the
English stage's most popular comedies, The Rivals and The School
for Scandal. In his own lifetime, however, Sheridan was as renowned
a politician as he was a playwright, and during a parliamentary
career that spanned thirty-two years - the large majority of which
he spent in opposition - he was an advocate of reform, a supporter
of the French Revolution and of Irish independence, and a fierce
critic of the government's curtailment of civil liberties. Drawing
upon a wide range of sources, from previously unpublished
manuscript materials to political pamphlets and satirical cartoons,
Theatres of Opposition rehabilitates this too often forgotten
figure, and offers the first detailed examination of the complex
simultaneity and interconnectedness of Sheridan's theatrical and
political practices. Moreover, by tracing the artistic and
professional trajectory of Sheridan as a playwright, radical
parliamentarian, celebrated orator, and playhouse manager, this
book sheds important new light on the overlap between theatrical
and political cultures in London during the last thirty years of
the eighteenth century. Sheridan, Taylor contends, provides a prism
through which we can revise our understanding of the ways in which
the sites of power and performance habitually bled into one another
at this time. Excavating a theatrical politics as precise as it is
problematic, Theatres of Opposition speaks to a spectrum of
interests, from theatre and political histories to the studies of
oratory and visual culture.
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