Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment (The Enlightenment World: Political and Intellectual History of the Long Eighteenth Century)

by David Worrall

"Harlequin Empire explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Drury Lane and regional…