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- Title
"The shame of this pacific reign ": Engagement with the past in domestic tragedy during the I 730s.
- Authors
Bloomfield, Jem
- Abstract
An essay is presented on Elizabethan themes in 18th-century domestic tragedy. According to the author, this form of drama used Elizabethan settings, source materials, and cultural myths to criticize the administration of British statesman Robert Walpole and to produce a narrative establishing the heritage of the Whiggish and mercantile middle classes. Topics discussed include paratexts, literary adaptations, and relations between England and Spain.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; THEATER history; TRAGEDY (Drama); WALPOLE, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745; MIDDLE class; WHIG Party (Great Britain); REIGN of Elizabeth I, England, 1558-1603; HISTORY; EIGHTEENTH century
- Publication
Restoration & 18th Century Theatre Research, 2010, Vol 25, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
0034-5822
- Publication type
Essay