Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Bridget Orr. Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 350. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77350-4.

Bridget Orr's book expands the notion of what Restoration and eighteenth-century drama was about. Eschewing the typical discussion of domestic, cultural, political, and social issues in such studies, Orr instead target's England's burgeoning colonial expansion and its inevitable imperialist tendencies.

The book has two parts. Orr's "account of relations between empire and the stage in the Restoration thus begins with a discussion over ...

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