Glorious Causes: The Grand Theatre of Political Change, 1789 to 1833Oxford University Press, 2001 - 202 páginas Glorious Causes explores the politics of theatricality and the theatricality of politics in late Georgian Britain, at a time when the British nation can be described as a stage for reform. Political rhetoric during this period was characterized by a rich vocabulary, drawing on theatrical language and forms, from melodrama and tragedy, to comedy and burlesque. Most importantly, activity in the theaters themselves, often dismissed until recently as vulgar or sentimental, was highly charged with political dynamic and controversy, central to the drama of reform. |
Contenido
The Grand Theatre of Reform | 18 |
Slavery Removing the Cloak from the Truth | 41 |
Dark Satanic Mills Transforming the Face of England | 76 |
Distressed Tenants and Rural Landscapes 93 256 | 93 |
Women Players and the Protection Racket | 113 |
The Grand Theatre of Political Change 1789 to 1833 | 137 |
Epilogue | 175 |
Bibliography | 188 |
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