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Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 (Paperback)
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Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 (Paperback)
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The theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish
civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience.
Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and
within networks, were remarkably popular and potent during this
period, especially in London. As ideas of Enlightenment percolated
throughout Britain and Ireland, Irish theatrical practitioners -
actors, managers, playwrights, critics and journalists - exploited
a growing receptivity to Irish civility, and advanced a patriot
agenda of political and economic autonomy. Mobility, toleration and
the capacity to negotiate multiple allegiances are marked features
of this Irish theatrical Enlightenment, whose ambitious
participants saw little conflict between their twin loyalties to
the Crown and to Ireland. This collection of essays responds to
recent work in the areas of eighteenth-century theatre studies,
Irish studies and Enlightenment studies. The volume's discussions
of genre, colonialism, gender, race, music, slavery, and dress open
up new avenues of scholarship and research across disciplines.
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