A Second Journey In Spain In 1809
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Staging the Peninsular War
Author | : Susan Valladares |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317050711 |
From Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 to his final defeat at Waterloo, the English theatres played a crucial role in the mediation of the Peninsular campaign. In the first in-depth study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment of the war within the larger political and ideological axes of Romantic performance. Exploring the role of spectacle in the mediation of war and the links between theatrical productions and print culture, she argues that the popularity of theatre-going and the improvisation and topicality unique to dramatic performance make the theatre an ideal lens for studying the construction of the Peninsular War in the public domain. Without simplifying the complex issues involved in the study of citizenship, communal identities, and ideological investments, Valladares recovers a wartime theatre that helped celebrate military engagements, reform political sympathies, and register the public’s complex relationship with Britain’s military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula. From its nuanced reading of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro (1799), to its accounts of wartime productions of Shakespeare, description of performances at the minor theatres, and detailed case study of dramatic culture in Bristol, Valladares’s book reveals how theatrical entertainments reflected and helped shape public feeling on the Peninsular campaign.
British Liberators in the Age of Napoleon
Author | : Graciela Iglesias Rogers |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012-12-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441103740 |
This book unveils the role of a hitherto unrecognized group of men who, long before the International Brigades made its name in the Spanish Civil War, also found reasons to fight under the Spanish flag. Their enemy was not fascism, but what could be at times an equally overbearing ideology: Napoleon's imperialism. Although small in number, British volunteers played a surprisingly influential role in the conduct of war operations, in politics, gender and social equality, in cultural life both in Britain and Spain and even in relation to emancipation movements in Latin America. Some became prisoners of war while a few served with guerrilla forces. Many of the works published about the Peninsular War in the last two decades have adopted an Anglocentric narrative, writing the Spanish forces out of victories, or have tended to present the war, not as much won by the allies, but lost by the French. This book takes a radically different approach by drawing on previously untapped archival sources to argue that victory was the outcome of a truly transnational effort.
A Catalogue of the Library of the Russell Institution
Author | : Russell Institution, London. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author | : Signet Library (Great Britain) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |