Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660 - 1800
Mita Choudhury
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Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660 - 1800

Identity, Performance, Empire

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In Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, Mita Choudhury argues that the eighteenth-century British theater is a dynamic expression and register of the anxieties and tensions of a culture poised for global supremacy. By strategic consideration of political and intellectual alliances that the theater inspired and stifled, and through discussions of a wide cross-section of performance practices from the time of Dryden to that of Inchbald, Choudhury demonstrates the power of performativity in a culture of ascendancy. She argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemp...