Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Pickering & Chatto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 786
Release: 1928
Genre:
ISBN:

Harlequin Empire

Harlequin Empire
Author: David Worrall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317315480

Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.