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The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on 'staging the sea' in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence of the sea and shipping was firmly established in the very fabric of English life. As theatres were re-established after the Restoration, playhouses soon became very visible spaces of cultural activity and important locales for staging cultural contact and conflict. Plays staging the sea can be read as central in representing the budding maritime empire to metropolitan audiences, as well as negotiating political power and knowledge about the "other". The study explores well-known plays by authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wycherley alongside a host of more obscure plays by authors such as Edward Ravenscroft and Charles Gildon as cultural performances for negotiating cultural identity and difference in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on 'staging the sea' in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial act...
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Dr. Gunda Windmüller was born and raised in Cologne before moving to England, graduating with a BA in Politics and Sociology from the University of York. Returning to Germany, she completed a Masters degree in Comparative Literature, Politics and Sociology at the University of Bonn before completing a PhD in English Literature at the same institution.
Dr. Gunda Windmüller was born and raised in Cologne before moving to England, graduating with a BA in Politics and Sociology from the University of York. Returning to Germany, she completed a Masters degree in Comparative Literature, Politics and Sociology at the University of Bonn before complet...
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