British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference - 9781108499712

The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued for religious toleration, attacked imperial invasion and forced conversion of indigenous peoples and challenged social hierarchy. This book tells the story of freemasons who served as theatrical 'shock troops of the Enlightenment'.

• | By (Author): Bridget (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Orr
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2020
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 294 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1108499716
• | ISBN-13: 9781108499712