Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800: Identity, Performance, Empire

Mita Choudhury

Jan 2000 · Bucknell University Press

About this ebook

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 in ascendancy. She argues that nationalism, as both active movement and contemplative ideology, cannot be separated from the themes of expansionism that propel the many incentives, principles, and sites of performance.

About the author

Mita Choudhury teaches in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has also taught at Emory University, New York University, St. Lawrence University, Pennsylvania State University, and at Miranda House College in the University of Delhi.