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Playing Out the Empire - Ben-Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908. A Critical Anthology (Hardcover)
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Playing Out the Empire - Ben-Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908. A Critical Anthology (Hardcover)
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Playing Out the Empire provides a unique introduction to the 'toga
play', a genre of theatrical melodrama which flourished in the late
nineteenth century and re-emerged in silent cinema and later
'epics', and which sheds important new light on British and
American social and cultural history. The volume brings together
the most important playscripts and film scenarios of the genre. Set
in the post-Republican Roman Empire, toga plays and films presented
Roman and Jewish heroes, Christian virgins, seductive
'adventuresses', insane Emperors, savage lions, and racing
chariots. But, as David Mayer shows in his lively critical
introductions, the plays also ventured clandestinely into issues of
class, gender, religion, immigration, and imperialism. Among the
restored scripts and scenarios included here - all of which are
previously unpublished and generously illustrated - are those of
Claudian (1883); the most popular of all Victorian melodramas, The
Sign of the Cross (1895); and the stage spectacular Ben-Hur (1899),
together with its earliest cinematic version (1907). D. W.
Griffith's first toga film, The Barbarian Ingomar (1908) is
represented by a lengthy selection of film stills. At a time of
growing interest in the relationship between Victorian popular
theatre and early cinema, this ground-breaking book reveals a
highly significant - but critically neglected - theatrical and
cinematic genre.
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