Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Pizarro, Paperback / softback Book

Pizarro Paperback / softback

Edited by Selena Couture, Alexander Dick

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s last play, an adaptation of August Von Kotzebue’s Die Spanier set in Peru and first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century.

Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatized English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but it is also surprisingly and critically engaged with Britain’s colonial exploits abroad.

Pizarro is a play of firsts: the first use of music alongside action, the first collapsing set, the first production to inspire such celebratory ephemera as cartoons, portraits, postcards, even porcelain collector plates.

Pizarro marks the end of eighteenth-century drama and the birth of a new theatrical culture. This edition features a comprehensive introduction and extensive appendices documenting the play’s first successful performances and global influence.

It will appeal to students and scholars of Romantic literature, theatre history, post-colonialism, and Indigenous studies.

Information

Other Formats

Save 1%

£29.95

£29.49

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information