Bridget Orr.

Bridget Orr. Empire upon the English Stage 1660-1714. of recent origin York: Cambridge University Pres 2001 Pp x 350 $5995 ISBN 0-521-77350-4

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

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

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