British Enlightenment Theatre. Dramatizing Difference, New ed, Paperback/***

The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued for religious toleration, attacked imperial invasion and forced conversion of indigenous peoples and challenged social hierarchy. This book tells the story of freemasons who served as theatrical 'shock troops of the Enlightenment'. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Bridget (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Orr Illustration(s): Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Halftones, black and white Number of pages: 295 Publication date: 2022 Dimensions: 163 x 228 x 22 Cover type: Paperback / softback