This book explores the impact of the Middle East and the Orient on writing and performance in nineteenth-century British theatre.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'real sets', geography, and race; 1. Spectacle and surveillance in orientalist panoramas; 2. Fantasies of miscegenation on the romantic stage; 3. The built-out East of popular ethnography; 4. The biblical East in theatres and exhibitions; 5. The geography of Imperial theatre; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.