Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter
Gould, Marty
In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital¿s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery, separated from the action by only the thin shadow of the proscenium arch, theatrical audiences observed cross-cultural contact in action. But without narrative d...