Strolling Players of Empire. Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656-1833, Hardback

A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenth-century English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had world-making intentions and effects.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Author(s): Kathleen (State University of New York, Stony Brook) Wilson
• Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises
• Number of pages: 496
• Collection: Critical Perspectives on Empire
• Publication date: 2022
• Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 39
• Cover type: Hardback