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- Title
British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference.
- Authors
Worrall, David
- Abstract
As Orr argues: "Plays and comic operas set in a countryside that arguably still serves as a crucial element in the English national imaginary proliferated in the theatres of eighteenth-century Britain" (147). Such dramas located deep in the English shire counties are central to what Orr describes as "a nation whose green heart is the countryside, not the counting house" (203). Orr charts a predominantly "Whig dramaturgy" produced by a distinctively "English Enlightenment", with its presiding genius perhaps being Sir Richard Steele, whose name crops up throughout the study (7, 15).
- Subjects
ENGLISH drama; RELIGIOUS communities; SOCIAL impact; ATTITUDES toward religion; POLITICAL culture; PEASANTS
- Publication
Restoration & 18th Century Theatre Research, 2022, Vol 34, p114
- ISSN
0034-5822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5325/rectr.34.0114