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British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850 : Volume I by Arnold Schmidt; Joshua Commander; Kristl Commander; Leena Jamaleddin; A. L. V Campbell; Thomas Dibdin; Edward Fitzball is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres. These plays mixed sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum. The plays included in

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Author

Arnold Schmidt; Joshua Commander; Kristl Commander; Leena Jamaleddin; A. L. V Campbell; Thomas Dibdin; Edward Fitzball

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315530123

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Drama, History