National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage | EKB DL

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National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage

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Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification.