The resolution of the American Revolution in 1783 would terminate a tether between two peoples that had previously seemed interminable. Though both would reflexively project a selfassuredness to the other, the Revolution would initiate a renegotiation of the identity politics that had long governed both nations. In both the British and American theatre at the turn of the eighteenth century, this crisis of identity was still palpable. Through a dual analysis of the embattled performance history of William Dunlap's André on one side of the Atlantic and the sensational popularity of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro on the other, this thesis endeavours to show that the notions of liberty at the heart of the American Revolution would come to ...
Although Beaumarchais played a considerable role in the war of American independence and in the diff...
Les Grandes Découvertes de la Renaissance amènent les Européens à rencontrer de nouveaux peuples don...
This book investigates a range of formal strategies deployed by theatre-makers in Britain in respons...
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed a particularly intense conflict between the Enlightenment philo...
The revolutionary period in France was characterized by great upheavals in theater, politics, and po...
This work deals with one way in which imperialism could be convincingly rationalized to average peop...
The theatre, a very often-frequented place from the 1770s, is at the junction of several socie-ties:...
Theater productions were born out of a paradox in the United States of the Revolutionary War and sho...
Martin Nadeau, The Cultural Policy of Year II : the Misfortunes of Revolutionary Propaganda on Stage...
Taking as a case study the Theatre-Italien, here considered both as a particular theatrical practice...
This thesis examines the popularity of plays from the ancien régime in the theatre of the French Rev...
This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the theatre resurfaced during the late Ren...
International audienceFrom historical to political plays: debating about regeneration (1748-1790) In...
Living Theater: Politics, Justice and the Stage in France (1750-1800) examines many of the aesthetic...
In Royall Tyler’s 1787 play The Contrast, the innocent and simple Yankee Jonathan unknowingly attend...
Although Beaumarchais played a considerable role in the war of American independence and in the diff...
Les Grandes Découvertes de la Renaissance amènent les Européens à rencontrer de nouveaux peuples don...
This book investigates a range of formal strategies deployed by theatre-makers in Britain in respons...
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed a particularly intense conflict between the Enlightenment philo...
The revolutionary period in France was characterized by great upheavals in theater, politics, and po...
This work deals with one way in which imperialism could be convincingly rationalized to average peop...
The theatre, a very often-frequented place from the 1770s, is at the junction of several socie-ties:...
Theater productions were born out of a paradox in the United States of the Revolutionary War and sho...
Martin Nadeau, The Cultural Policy of Year II : the Misfortunes of Revolutionary Propaganda on Stage...
Taking as a case study the Theatre-Italien, here considered both as a particular theatrical practice...
This thesis examines the popularity of plays from the ancien régime in the theatre of the French Rev...
This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the theatre resurfaced during the late Ren...
International audienceFrom historical to political plays: debating about regeneration (1748-1790) In...
Living Theater: Politics, Justice and the Stage in France (1750-1800) examines many of the aesthetic...
In Royall Tyler’s 1787 play The Contrast, the innocent and simple Yankee Jonathan unknowingly attend...
Although Beaumarchais played a considerable role in the war of American independence and in the diff...
Les Grandes Découvertes de la Renaissance amènent les Européens à rencontrer de nouveaux peuples don...
This book investigates a range of formal strategies deployed by theatre-makers in Britain in respons...