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Page references followed by “fig” indicate illustrations
Abington, Fanny, 68, 73, 78, 253
abolition of slavery, 269, 276–78, 280
absolutism. See despotism
Adam, Robert: Derby House and, 86–88
The Maid of the Oaks and, 65–66
pavilion of, 54–55, 56fig, 58fig 61fig, 124, 160–61, 391n19
Adolphus, John, 297
adverse incidents (Reik), 353
Aeneid, 289, 291, 293, 324–25, 334,
Alcina (Handel), 335–37
Alfred (Home), 141, 232 alienation, 220
Allen, Ralph G., 66
Almon, John, 12
alternative future, 181, 183, 247. See also future
American War: anxiety and, 92, 123, 257
auratic tradition and, 25
The Duenna and, 126
entertainment and, 2–3
Fête Champêtre and, 62
gender and, 35–36
Handel Commemoration and, 308
Inkle and Yarico and, 276
loss of, 265
newspaper factionalism and, 14–15
patriotism after, 36–37
sexualization of English/American relations, 34
The Task and, 20
Thames Regatta supper and, 122–23
theatrical reaction, 141–42
amusement, 2
ancien regime, 32
Anderson, Benedict, 22
Anderson, Misty, 255–56, 265, 267–68
André, John, 62, 149–50, 154, 182, 252. See also Mischianza
Andrew, Donna, 92
anti-Semitism, 128–29
anxiety: American War and, 92, 123, 257
aristocratic sociability, 92
Garrick’s Hamlet performances and, 200–201
music and, 311
newspaper factionalism and, 15
Percy and, 139
The Prophecy and, 230
theatre and, 36
The Upholsterer and, 10–11
The West Indian and, 220
West Indies and, 218
Appadurai, Arjun, 66
The Apprentice (Murphy), 6
The Architectural Works of Robert and James Adam, 87
aristocratic dissipation:
American War and, 363
class mingling and, 107–11
domiciliary entertainments and, 95
Handel Commemoration and, 334–35
Pantheon and, 329
The School for Scandal and, 133, 134
Thames Regatta and, 100–101, 103, 114–15, 117, 173
Which Is the Man? and, 266
aristocratic identity, 48–52
aristocratic performance, 153
aristocratic sociability: anxiety and, 92
domiciliary entertainments and, 94–95, 155
empire and, 67
Fête Champêtre and, 47–48, 50, 51–52, 57
The Maid of the Oaks and, 69–70
Mischianza and, 252
Sheridan and, 259
Thames Regatta and, 102
Arnold, Samuel, 341
Aspden, Susan, 104
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 226, 234
aufnahme, 9
aurora borealis, 250, 252, 253, 261
avarice, 270
Backscheider, Paula R., 181–82
Bagster-Collins, Jeremy, 279
The Ball Room (Zucchi), 87–88
Bannister, Elizabeth, 294
Barlow, Elizabeth, 354–55
Barthélemon, François-Hippolyte, 274
“Bartholomew Fair” (Purcell), 112
Bate, Henry, 14–15
Battle of Blenheim, 351–52
Battle of Charleston, 265
Battle of Chesapeake, 270
Battle of Concord, 90
Battle of Dettingen, 313–14
The Battle of Hastings (Cumberland), 36, 141–42, 225, 227–28
Battle of Lexington, 90
Battle of Malplaquet, 313–14
Battle of Poictiers, 164
Battle of Princeton, 150
Battle of Saratoga, 92, 141–42, 150
Battle of Trenton, 150
Battle of Ushant, 186–91, 191fig, 194, 271
Battle of Yorktown, 249, 265, 270
Bayly, C. A., 354
beauty, 161, 173. See also sublime
The Beaux’s Stratagem (Farquhar), 255
The Beggar’s Opera (Gay), 131
The Belle’s Stratagem (Cowley), 16, 248, 253–55, 258–61, 264
bellicosity, 156, 167, 173, 180–83, 302
Benjamin, Walter, 18–20, 25, 133, 376n41
Betterton, Thomas, 197, 200, 204
biological state racism, 278–79, 413–14n5
bodies: mutilation of, 342, 349, 353, 355
racialization of classed, 297
of Rodney, 282–83, 283fig, 284fig; white middleclass, 276, 280. See also effigies
A Bold Stroke for a Husband (Cowley), 253
Bonduca (Fletcher), 36
Bon Ton, or High Life Below Stairs (Garrick), 107
Bourdieu, Pierre, 38
British Theatre, 276
Briton (Smollett), 11
Brown, Christopher Leslie, 269, 277
Brown, Jared, 146
Brown, Laura, 287–88
Bulkley, Mary, 139
Burgoyne, John: aristocratic entertainment and, 47
Battle of Saratoga and, 145
court martial of, 88–89
criticism of, 252–53
Fête Champêtre and, 43–45, 57–58
on hybrid entertainment, 74–75
India and, 72
The Maid of the Oaks of, 62–80
parliamentary activities of, 44–45, 173. See also The Maid of the Oaks
Burke, Edmund, 30, 195, 239, 271–73
Burney, Charles, 304, 313, 315, 323–26, 331–32, 334–36, 338
Bute, Lord, 100
Butler, Judith, 38
Byng, John, 6, 7, 202, 204, 264, 374–75n17
Calcutta celebrations, 344–51, 355–57
The Camp (Sheridan), 36, 124, 135, 222, 235, 259
The Campaign (Addison), 348
Carew, Thomas, 47
Carlson, Julie, 405n89
Cartwright, John, 34
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole), 152–53
castrati, 104
Cato (Addison), 184–85
censorship, 4–5
Centlivre, Susannah, 146
Chandos Anthems (Handel), 323–27, 334
chivalry, 138, 150–53, 165, 167
Cibber, Colley, 198–99
circumcision, 342, 349–50, 353
citationality, 264
Cities of the Dead (Roach), 198
City of London, 92, 100–101, 246
civic virtue, 19, 35–36, 78, 181, 183–85, 267– 68. See also vice; virtue
The Clandestine Marriage (Garrick/Colman), 131
class envy, 298–99
class mingling, 107–11, 113–14, 133, 137
Clinton, Henry, 149, 178–79, 183, 185, 219
Coelum Britannicum (Carew), 47
Coercive Acts, 44, 94, 145, 173
Cohen, Sarah R., 48
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 24, 361
Colley, Linda, 150–51, 153–54, 163, 342
Collingham, E. M., 355
Colman, George, 36, 276–77. See also Inkle and Yarico; New Brooms
colonialism:
Calcutta celebrations and, 345
harem fantasy and, 168–69
Inkle and Yarico and, 277–78, 279–81, 289, 290
Inkle and Yarico story, 275–76
reinvention of, 293
Rodney’s victory at Les Saintes and, 273
The Upholsterer and, 262–63
The West Indian and, 218–19
colonies:
Douglas and, 182
Handel Commemoration and, 327
inside-outside dynamic and, 30–31, 126
Mischianza and, 166
redefinition of governance after the American War, 31
represented by women, 173, 177
sexual relations as allegory for relations with, 171
strength of militia of, 91
Thames Regatta and, 101
The Upholsterer and, 10–11
William Cowper’s view of, 362–63
William Howe’s desire for reconciliation with, 146–47
commedia, 54
commercialization:
The Critic and, 227–28
of Handel, 340–41
Mischianza and, 156–57
School for Scandal and, 134–35
of sexual relations, 126
Tasker’s “Elegy”
for Garrick and, 223
Thames Regatta and, 111, 114, 173
of theatre, 28
Comus (Milton/Colman), 137
confederation, 29
The Constant Couple (Farquhar), 146
constitutional crisis of 1783, 302, 306, 308, 317–18
contradiction fees, 13
Conway, Stephen, 373n4, 403n67
Cornelys, Teresa, 94–95, 97, 112, 116, 118–19, 122, 155
Cornwallis, Charles, 343, 345, 348
Coronation Anthem of Zadok the Priest (Handel), 312, 319
corruption:
André and, 158
Douglas and, 180
Hamlet and, 201
Handel Commemoration and, 308
Howe and, 175
Percy and, 141
The Prophecy and, 233
Rodney and, 271
School for Scandal and, 135
The West Indian and, 218
Which Is the Man? and, 266
countermemory (Foucault), 231–32
counternormativity, 297
court-martials, 6–7, 88–89, 190–94, 202, 204
Covent Garden Theatre, 5, 16, 85–86
Cowley, Hannah, 16, 24–25, 39, 248, 253, 259–61. See also The Belle’s Stratagem; Which Is the Man?
Cowper, William:
bee metaphor of, 26–27
on empire after American war, 361–63
Handel Commemoration and, 309
newspaper format and, 64
providential retribution and, 363–65
“Yardley Oak” of, 364–71. See also The Task; “Yardley Oak”
Coxheath encampments, 124, 188, 217, 225
credit, 92. See also debt The Crisis, 148, 176
boredom and, 236–37
futurity and, 239
historical misrecognition and, 232
historical time and, 39
loss of American War and, 195
mediation and, 3
national fantasy and, 136
popularity of, 221
pro-American sentiments and, 239
Shakespeare and, 234–38
spectacle of reception and, 135–36
Tasker and, 222
critical history (Nietzsche), 139
critique of the present, 201, 204, 221
Crosby, Brass, 12
Crusades, 138–39
cultural history, 3–4
cultural patrimony, 36, 205, 207–8, 210–13, 223–24, 238–39
Cumberland, Richard, 36, 224. See also The Battle of Hastings; The West Indian
Daily Gazetteer, 5
Dartmouth, Lord, 91–92
Dean, Winton, 316–17
debt, 8–9, 270, 306–7, 362, 375n23
Declaration of Independence, 125, 130
decorporealization, 191–92
deformity/disability, 291–93, 292fig, 297, 301. See also invalidism
De Grasse, 269–70
deployment of sexuality (Foucault), 33, 174, 177, 182
Derrida, Jacques, 379n78
despotism, 48, 163, 166, 172–73, 175, 306, 317–18, 327
Dettingen Te Deum (Handel), 312–15
Deutsche, Helen, 291–92
Dibdin, Charles, 102, 136, 259
distraction, 9, 17–20, 22, 24–25, 133
diversion, 44–45, 103, 117–18, 125, 154, 220
Dobson, Michael, 396–97n36
Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race, 102–3, 108
domiciliary entertainments, 94–95, 134, 155, 167, 329
Douglas (Home), 178–85
The Druids (Anonymous), 86
Drury Lane Theatre, 5, 16, 85–86
dueling, 288–89
The Duenna (Sheridan):
Declaration of Independence and, 125, 130
grotesqueness and, 128, 130, 285
interrupted Belle’s Stratagem and, 259
national fantasy and, 127, 136
as opposition fantasy, 127, 129–30
political allegory and, 92, 126, 132–33
popularity of, 124
remediation of, 130
use of space and, 125, 136, 388n65
Dunbar, Howard H., 26
Dunciad (Pope), 112
Durant, Jack D., 125
During, Simon, 153
duty, 288–92, 297. See also obligation
dynastic conflict, 179–80
East India Bill, 306, 308–9, 317
East India Company, 20, 27, 45, 302, 344
effeminacy, 95, 104–5, 122, 139–40, 329, 353. See also feminization; gender insubordination
effigies, 192, 198, 205, 207, 220, 245. See also bodies
election of 1784, 302, 306, 308. See also national election
“Elegy on the Death of David Garrick” (Tasker), 216fig, 222–23
emasculation, 311, 326, 330–32, 334
empire:
aristocratic sociability and, 67
Garrick funeral and, 199
inside-outside dynamic of, 30–31
meaning of term, 29–30
newspapers and, 90
oak and, 359–60, 361–63, 365–71
Pantheon and, 330
School for Scandal and, 134
The Englishman, 226
Englishness, 264
entertainment, 1–2, 4, 13, 28–29, 80, 125, 155, 226. See also hybrid entertainment
erotic display, 328–29
erotic economies, 48–49, 52–54, 58–59, 76, 168, 256–58, 266
eroticism:
Douglas and, 184
Fête Champêtre and, 48–50, 52–54, 58–59
Handel performances and, 330, 332
Inkle and Yarico and, 278, 294–95, 300
The Maid of the Oaks and, 70, 73, 76
Pantheon and, 328–29
Thames Regatta and, 122
Zucchi and, 87–88
ethnocentricity, 305
ethnoscape, 66–67
facialization, 191–92
factionalism, 14–15, 193–94, 227, 250–52
failures, 81–82, 117–18, 177, 205, 216–17, 224, 234
fashion, 95, 102, 135, 258, 260, 266, 305
Favret, Mary, 20, 22, 24, 37–38
feminization, 73, 155, 161–63, 204, 255, 291–93, 292fig. See also effeminacy; gender insubordination
Fête Champêtre:
American War and, 2, 57, 60–62
aristocratic sociability and, 47–48, 102
The Druids and, 86
first masque of, 45–46, 48, 50–51, 52–53, 70
historical implications of, 44, 45
King and Queen of the Oaks of, 54, 55, 60
The Maid of the Oaks and, 62–63, 70
Mischianza and, 62, 155–56, 159, 167, 173
pavilion of, 54–55, 56fig, 58fig, 61fig, 124, 160–61
remediation and, 80–82
textuality and, 51
Thames Regatta and, 117
third masque of, 60–62
Fitzpatrick, Richard, 227
Fletcher, John, 36
Foote, Samuel, 67, 72, 102. See also The Liar; The Minor; The Nabob
fops, 104–5, 108–9, 233, 255–56. See also macaronis
forced conversion, 342, 349, 353
foreign manners, 70, 74, 94, 254, 256, 261
Foucault, Michel, 6, 19, 33, 297, 413–14n5
Fox, Charles James, 123, 190, 195, 226, 271–73, 307, 319
France:
American War and, 91, 178, 183, 231, 357
Battle of Malplaquet, 313–14
Battle of Poictiers and, 164–65
Dettingen Te Deum and, 312–13
effeminacy and, 353
Jacobite Rebellion and, 247–48, 350
Keppel affair and, 186–87
Francophilia, 48–52, 53–54, 70, 257
Franklin, Benjamin, 30, 146–47
Franks, Rebecca, 177
Freeman, Lisa, 255
French Revolution, 352, 360–61
Fuller, Randall, 185
Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline (Handel), 319
future, 37, 238–39, 318, 334. See also alternative future
Gabrielle de Vergy (Belloy), 138
gambling:
Fox and, 307
The Maid of the Oaks and, 68–69, 70, 72
Mischianza and, 156–57
Rodney and, 270
Thames Regatta and, 96, 106–7, 114
Which Is the Man? and, 266. See also aristocratic dissipation; vice
Garrick, David:
auratic performance and, 19
cultural patrimony and, 223
death of, 194–95
hybrid dramatic forms and, 5
The Maid of the Oaks and, 62
normative relations and, 140–41; “Ode to Shakespeare”
of, 213–15, 214fig; Percy and, 139
performance techniques of, 199–201
relationship to Shakespeare, 205, 396–97n36
satires of media in, 26
Shakespearean legacy and, 207–8
Gazetteer:
Handel Commemoration and, 308, 310
on interrupted Belle’s Stratagem, 254, 258
Letters of Junius and, 12
parliamentary debates and, 12
on Percy, 138
Thames Regatta and, 94, 97–101, 107, 118
Gazette Extraordinary, 43, 258, 261–62
gender:
American War and, 35–36
Calcutta celebrations and, 345
Handel Commemoration and, 337
Hannah Cowley’s plays and, 255
The Maid of the Oaks and, 71–72
normativity in Inkle and Yarico and, 278–79, 285
Percy and, 139–40
sexuality and normativity, 293, 405n83
gender hybridity, 293
gender insubordination:
American War and, 133
aristocratic dissipation and, 95
camp culture and, 222
Handel Commemoration and, 326
Hurlothrumbo and, 104
macaronis and, 104–5
normative relations and, 141
Pantheon and, 329
The Prophecy and, 233
theatre and, 137
Which Is the Man? and, 266. See also effeminacy; feminization
General Advertiser, 14, 189, 193, 243–44, 246
General Evening Post, 23
“A General Index to the Occurrences in June 1775 in Mock Heroic Verse,” 91–93
Gentleman’s Magazine, 43–44, 148, 343–44
George II (King of England), 312–14
George III (King of England), 114–15, 304, 319, 338
Gil Morrice, 179
Gitelman, Lisa, 17
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Arnold and Haym), 341
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Handel), 332, 335–36
global war, 8, 148, 178–79, 184
Goldsmith, Oliver, 17
Gothic Era, 139–40
Gothic romance, 153–54, 165, 178
Graves, Thomas, 265
greed, 270
Gruber, Ira D., 147–48
Guest, Harriet, 391n19
habitus, 38
Hamilton, Alexander, 154
Hamilton, Elizabeth, 43, 67, 88
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 198–201, 204, 213, 228, 234, 235–39
Handel, George Frideric:
Alcina of, 335–37
Chandos Anthems of, 323–27, 334
Coronation Anthems of, 312–13, 319, 337–38
Dettingen Te Deum of, 312–15
Giulio Cesare in Egitto of, 332, 335–36
iconization of, 305
Judas Maccabaeus of, 247–48, 332–33, 348–52
Keppel acquittal and, 244
Messiah of, 302, 309–10, 338–40
Orlando of, 333–34
politicization of, 304
Saul of, 127, 316–19. See also Judas Maccabaeus
Handel Commemoration:
Alcina and, 335–37
audience reception, 335–36
commercialization and, 340–41
containment of passion and, 332
eroticism and, 332
as governmental action, 309
historical time and, 39
mourning and, 319–23
Pantheon and, 328–30
political allegory and, 312–13, 315–20, 323–28, 408-9n7
reform and, 332–35
resurrection of monarchy, 338–41
royalty and, 337–38
as social event, 304–5
use of space and, 328–30, 338–40, 339fig
vice and, 334–35
virtue and, 306–7
Westminster Abbey performances, 319–23
Hardy, Charles, 225
Harris, Eileen, 86–87
Hastings, Warren, 302
Haynes, Captain, 354–55
hegemony, 173–75
Heinrichs, Johann, 146–47
Henry IV, Part I (Shakespeare), 146
Henry V (Shakespeare), 234
Herbert, Henry (Earl of Pembroke), 114–15
Hill, Joseph, 361
historical continuity, 360
The History of Sexuality (Foucault), 19
Home, John (Douglas), 178–85
homosociality, 158, 162, 169, 174, 180–81, 184, 267–68
Hood, Samuel, 270–71
Howe, George Augustus, 145–46
Howe, William:
before American War, 145–46
criticism of, 146–48, 163–64, 166
as Edward Prince of Wales, 164
Henry Clinton and, 178–79
hopes for reconciliation with colonies and, 146–47
letter of defense of, 147
Mischianza and, 62
recall of, 162
Hull, Thomas, 136
Hulme, Peter, 289
Hurlothrumbo (Johnson), 103–4, 105
hybrid entertainment, 5, 74–75, 80, 82–83, 131, 148, 153, 155–56
hyperembodiment, 192
hypermediation, 23
hypocrisy, 309–10
identity, 8, 32–33, 134, 239, 269, 273–74
image city, 344–47
imitation, 177
imperial expansion, 64–65
Inchbald, Elizabeth, 276–78, 280
The Inconstant (Farquhar), 146
India, 72, 275, 341–47, 349, 351
Indianization, 342, 352–53, 357
Inkle and Yarico (Colman):
imperial future and, 249
inside-outside dynamic and, 299–300
martial masculinity and, 271
Steele’s Inkle and Yarico story and, 279
Which Is the Man? and, 268–69
Wowski subplot and, 280, 295–96, 298–99
inside-outside dynamic:
in empire, 30–31
Fête Champêtre and, 51–52, 60–62
identity and, 33
kinship and, 33–34
The Maid of the Oaks and, 65–66, 78
in media/theatre, 31–32
newspapers and, 65
School for Scandal and, 134
social class and, 299–300
Thames Regatta and, 112. See also space, use of
invalidism, 282–85, 283fig, 284fig, 301. See also deformity/disability
The Invasion (Pilon), 124
invasion scares, 187, 217, 221–22
Isikoff, Erin, 255
Jacobite Rebellion, 30, 35, 247–48, 350–51
Jekyll, Joseph, 280
Jenks, Timothy, 269
Jennens, Charles, 316
Jennings, Michael William, 19, 376–77n43
Jewishness, 259. See also anti-Semitism
Johnson, Claudia, 302
Johnson, Samuel (of Cheshire), 103–4
Johnstone, H. Diack, 309
Jones, Inigo, 47
Joshua (Handel), 332–33, 349, 354
Judas Maccabaeus (Handel), 244, 247–48, 332– 33, 348– 60, 401n15
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 234
Kant, Immanuel, 357
Kemble, Sarah, 279, 293–94, 300
Keppel, Augustus:
acquittal of, 2, 205–6, 243–48
court-martial of, 6, 190–94, 191fig, 202–3, 217, 225
King-in-Parliament, 30–32, 307
Kinservik, Matthew, 16–17
kinship metaphors, 32–34, 44–45, 83, 124, 126, 182, 290–93, 318
Knott, Sarah, 391–92n19
Kowaleski-Wallace, Beth, 255–56
de Langara, Juan, 248
Lee, Arthur, 93
Lee Lewes, Charles, 139, 141, 261–63
Lennox, Charles (Duke of Richmond), 114–15, 123
Leoni, Michael (Myer Lyon), 131
Letter on Chivalry and Romance (Hurd), 165, 178
Letters of Junius, 11–12
“A Letter to Edmund Burke; Controverting the Principles of American Government” (Cartwright), 34
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 33
The Liar (Foote), 146
liberty, 34–35, 360–61, 368–69
Licensing Act of 1737, 4–6, 63–64
Lichtenberg, Georg Christian, 199–200
Loftis, John, 125
London Evening Post, 12, 73, 103
London Gazette Extraordinary, 186–87
London Magazine, 77, 305, 328–29
London Museum, 12
London Packet, 131
“loophole of retreat,” 22–23, 366
Loutherbourg, Phillipe Jacques de, 5, 65, 68, 137, 195, 208, 213–15, 231
Love Finds the Way (Hull), 136
Luhmann, Niklas, 376n28
Luttrell, Temple Simon, 94, 112
Lyotard, Jean-François, 357
Lyttelton, Thomas, 94, 103–7, 112
“A Macaroni Ode, written by a Macaroni Poet on the Evening of the Regatta,” 104–5
macaronis, 68, 70, 74, 104–5, 122. See also fops
The Machiavellian Moment (Pocock), 184
Mackesy, Piers, 375n18, 378–79n77, 385n2, 390n1
The Maid of the Oaks, 62–70, 72–73, 76–77, 79–82, 107, 255
Mara, Gertrud Elisabeth, 328, 337
marital allegory, 59–61, 128–30, 132, 182–83, 257– 58, 266–68
Marlborough, Duke of, 313–14, 348
marriage:
The Belle’s Stratagem and, 255
commodification and, 297
Douglas and, 180
The Duenna and, 128–29
Fête Champêtre and, 59
imperial accumulation and, 71–72
Inkle and Yarico and, 281, 285, 301
inside-outside dynamic of, 129
The Maid of the Oaks and, 70, 78
as normative relation, 167
Orlando and, 334
The West Indian and, 219
Which Is the Man? and, 265–67
Marshall, P. J., 273
martial imagery:
Fête Champêtre and, 55, 57–58, 60–62
in The Maid of the Oaks, 76–77, 79–80
Mischianza and, 153–54, 156–57, 161, 168–70, 175
Zucchi paintings and, 88
martial masculinity. See masculinity
masculinity:
camp culture and, 222
critique of British, 233
Handel Commemoration and, 325–26
imperial future and, 249
Inkle and Yarico and, 271, 275
marriage and, 285
Mischianza and, 154, 156, 157, 162, 166, 167, 173
music and, 312
pleasure and, 332
virtue and, 306–7
Which Is the Man? and, 265–68
mass consciousness, 18–20
McGowan, Randall, 92
mechanical reproducibility, 19–20
media convergence, 6–36
mediation, 3–4, 6–36, 66, 138, 263–64
Medows, William, 343
mercantilism, 276, 278, 281, 288–89, 290– 93
Mercer, Colin, 4
Messiah (Handel), 302, 309–10, 338–40
metropolitan print culture, 149, 151, 155, 177
Middlesex Journal, 12
militarism, 267–68, 281, 293, 355
mimicry, 177
The Minor (Foote), 146
Mischianza:
American War and, 3
aristocratic sociability and, 252
Fête Champêtre and, 62, 155–56, 159, 167, 173
Herald’s address, 161–66
as hybrid entertainment, 148–53, 155–56
procession of, 174–75
reception of, 148
regatta of, 156–58
remediation of, 150, 393n50
temporary building of, 159–61
Thames Regatta and, 155, 156–58, 167, 173
ticket for, 152fig
tournament of, 151, 153, 155, 159, 167–73
use of space and, 155, 162, 174, 177
Miss in her Teens (Garrick), 105
Mocquet, Jean, 285
modernity, 32
Montagu, George (Duke of Manchester), 114–15, 123
Montagu, John (Earl of Sandwich), 245, 254fig, 272–73, 307–8
Montesquieu, 239
monumental history (Nietzsche), 139
More, Hannah, 18. See also Percy
Morning Chronicle, 13
Mrs. Baddeley and, 238
Cowper’s Task and, 23
The Critic and, 225–26, 235–36
on David Garrick’s Hamlet adaptation, 237
on The Duenna, 131
effect on media, 17
on Fête Champêtre, 43
on Garrick funeral, 201–5;
“A General Index to the Occurrences in June 1775 in Mock Heroic Verse,” 91–92
Handel Commemoration and, 331
Keppel and, 187, 189–90, 245–47
on Keppel affair, 189–90
The Maid of the Oaks and, 72–73, 84
on Percy, 138
on the Thames Regatta, 107, 123
Morning Post: American War and, 14
The Belle’s Stratagem and, 16
on Cape St. Vincent victory, 249–52
on David Garrick’s funeral, 196–97
on The Duenna, 132
effect on media, 17
on Handel Commemoration, 307–8
on Keppel affair, 189, 192–93, 245–46
on Lyttelton, 105–7
on Sheridan’s “Monody,” 208–14
social news and, 13
on the Thames Regatta, 102
mourning, 36, 180–82, 206, 209–11, 224, 317, 319–23
Murphy, Arthur:
News from Parnassus, 26–28
The Test of, 6
The Upholsterer of, 6–11, 20–21, 253–54, 261–64
mutilation, 342, 349, 353, 355
Myrone, Martin, 391–92n19
The Nabob (Foote), 31, 67, 72, 133–34
Nandakumar, 27
national election, 59–61, 75, 80, 87, 253, 332–33, 339, 356–57
national fantasy: American War and, 355, 357, 362–63
The Belle’s Stratagem and, 257
Betterton funeral and, 198
Calcutta celebrations and, 352
The Critic and, 231
The Duenna and, 127–30
Handel Commemoration and, 327
Mischianza and, 156–57
Tasker and, 224
The West Indian and, 219–20; “Yardley Oak”
nationalism, 79–80, 121–22, 212–13, 228, 256
national renewal, 325–26
naval imagery, 118, 119fig, 120–21, 156–57, 174
“A Naval Ode,” 274–75
New Brooms (Colman), 26
News from Parnassus (Murphy), 26–28
newspapers: censorship and, 5–6
commercialization and, 13–14
The Critic and, 224–27
entertainment and, 3–4
factionalism and, 14–15
French Revolution and, 352
Garrick funeral and, 197–98, 206
George Rodney and, 272
Handel Commemoration and, 307–9, 328
inside-outside dynamic of, 31–32
interrupted Belle’s Stratagem and, 254–55
intimacy and, 65
Keppel letter and, 187–90,188fig
The Maid of the Oaks reaction and, 84–85
Mischianza and, 154–55
parliamentary debates, 12–13
The Prophecy and, 228–29
as public sphere, 194
social news and, 13
social practice and, 67
The Task and, 20–24
temporal delay and, 90
Thames Regatta and, 112–15
topicality and, 62–64
in The Upholsterer, 7–11
West Indian fleet and, 218
Newton, John, 363
New York theatricals, 146–47, 219
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 139
nobility, 180–81
noble savages (Rousseau), 280
No One’s Enemy But His Own (Murphy), 146
normative femininity, 275, 278–79
normative relations, 140, 167, 181, 183, 293, 297, 300–301, 343–44
North, Lord, 91–92, 103, 117, 123, 128, 225
North Briton (Wilkes), 11
North Ministry: City opposition to, 91
Douglas and, 182–84
Howe’s recall and, 162
Keppel affair and, 190
pro-American critiques of, 193, 203
School for Scandal and, 134
Thames Regatta and, 103
William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) on, 202–3
nostalgia, 203–4, 220, 224, 321
Nussbaum, Felicity, 291–92
“Oak Gazette Extraordinary.” See Fête Champêtre
obligation, 211, 236–37. See also duty
obsolescence, 184–85, 220–21, 237–38, 278, 293
occupation of Philadelphia, 158, 163, 169, 172
“An Ode for the Regatta, or Water Jubilee, performed on Friday Night at Ranelagh,” 120–21
“Ode to Shakespeare” (Garrick), 213–15, 214fig
“Ode to the Warlike Genius of Great
Britain” (Tasker), 223–24
Oliver, Richard, 12
oracular poet, 370–71
orientalism, 163, 167, 168–69, 170fig, 173
Orlando (Handel), 333–34
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto), 333
Orthopaedia; or, the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformities in Children, 291, 292fig
Othello, Inkle and Yarico and, 299
Palliser, Hugh, 189–90
Pantheon, 328–30, 331fig, 332, 335
Paradise Lost (Milton), 365–66
paratextual material, 18, 140–41, 248–49
parliamentary debates, 12–13
passion, 331–32
pastoral imagery, 120–22, 287–88, 295, 345–46, 355, 355–56
patrimony, 134
patriotic discourse, 142
patriotism: Cape St. Vincent victory and, 251
Cowley and, 256
definition of, 15
Doggett’s Coat and Badge Race and, 102
English/American relations and, 34–35
Garrick vs. Pitt funerals and, 203–4
Handel Commemoration and, 306
invasion scares and, 221–22
Judas Maccabeus and, 247–48
Keppel acquittal and, 205–6
Mysore Wars and, 343
News from Parnassus and, 27
redefining of, 36–37
Rodney and, 271
The Task and, 22
The Upholsterer and, 8
Peace of Paris (1783), 220, 323
perception, 19–20
Percy (More), 18, 32, 92, 137–42
Permanent Settlement, 342, 354–55, 357
Perreau-Rudd case, 92
petticoat government, 95, 128, 156, 167
picturesque, 346–47
Pigot, Hugh, 272
Pigott, Captain, 58–59
Pilgrimage to Cythera (Watteau), 49
Pitt, William (Earl of Chatham), 202–3
Pitt, William (the Younger), 280, 306
Plax, Julie Anne, 48
pleasure, 117–18, 121, 161, 164, 175, 310, 332
Pocock, J.G.A., 15–16, 29–31, 257
political economy, 279–80
Posner, Donald, 48
postimperial future, 118, 122–23. See also future
Pownall, Thomas, 30
Pratt, Mary Louise, 342
precinematic transparencies, 344–47
“Prize Monody on the Death of Mr. Garrick” (Seward), 206–8
prophecy: cultural hybridization and, 353
The Duenna and, 127–28
Fête Champêtre and, 60
Handel Commemoration and, 334
interrupted Belle’s Stratagem and, 258–61
interrupted Upholsterer and, 263
The Prophecy and, 229–30
The Task and, 38
Thames Regatta and, 122–23; “Yardley Oak”
and, 370–71
The Prophecy, or Elizabeth at Tilbury (King), 221, 225, 228–33, 234
providential retribution, 363–65
public, 50–52, 54, 60–64, 158–59, 194, 196– 97
Public Advertiser, 11–12, 43, 103–5, 226, 271, 308–10
The Quaker (Dibdin), 136
Queen of Denmark, 98–100
racialization, 276, 279, 285–86, 297
racism, 276, 278–80, 286–87, 297
Rajan, Balachandra, 366
Redemption (Arnold), 341
referentiality, 216–17
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Burke), 360–61, 364, 369
The Rehearsal (Villiers), 225, 227, 237
Reik, Theodor, 353
reinauguration of George III, 319, 338
reinvention of culture, 239
remediation: American War and, 28–29
The Belle’s Stratagem and, 255, 258–61
of Cape St. Vincent victory, 264
of The Duenna, 130
Fête Champêtre and, 80–82
Garrick funeral and, 197–98, 206
Keppel and, 187–90, 188fig, 243
The Maid of the Oaks and, 80–82
of the Mischianza, 154–55, 393n50
Which Is the Man? and, 265
“Yardley Oak” and, 366
repressive hypothesis, 6
reproduction, 278–79, 295, 405n83
Reynolds, Joshua, 195, 208, 223
Rheinhold, Frederick Charles, 116–17, 119
The Rivals (Sheridan), 17
Roach, Joseph, 198–99, 204, 239
Rockingham Whigs: colonial relationship and, 34–35
Handel Commemoration and, 307
Judas Maccabeus and, 248, 401n15
Keppel court-martial and, 190, 192–93
newspaper factionalism and, 14
Rodney and, 271–72
William Pitt and, 202
Rodney, George Bridges, 248–52, 269–75, 281–83, 283fig, 284fig
Roger, Nicholas, 205, 243–44, 248
Rosenfield, Sybil, 45
Rotunda of Ranelagh, 96–97, 98fig
“Rule Britannia,” 260
“Rural Masquerade Dedicated to the Regatta’ites,” 95fig, 95-97
on camp sociability, 124
on class anxiety, 107
on domiciliary entertainments, 45, 155
on Hannah Cowley, 255, 258, 260, 264
on The Maid of the Oaks, 68
on the Pantheon, 328–29
on Sheridan’s satire, 222
on Teresa Cornelys, 94–95, 133
Sackville, George, 128
Sackville, John Frederick, 88
Samson (Handel), 355–57
Sargent, Winthrop, 164
satire, 161–62, 167, 172, 174, 177
School for Guardians (Murphy), 136
The School for Scandal (Sheridan): aristocratic dissipation and, 133, 134
The Belle’s Stratagem and, 255, 259
The Nabob vs., 133–34
national fantasy and, 136
as social diagnosis, 135–36
spatial disjunction and, 92, 136
The Seasons (Thomson), 305, 346
self-destruction, 308
sentimental narrative, 278–80, 287–88
Seven Years’ War: civic virtue and, 182
Douglas and, 179
ethnoscape after, 67
ideas of empire after, 29
The Upholsterer and, 7
The West Indian and, 218
William Howe and, 145–46
William Pitt (The Elder) and, 202
sexual commodification, 9, 126, 129, 279–80, 286, 296
sexuality: civic virtue and, 78
deployment of (Foucault), 174, 177, 182
interracial, 289, 295–96, 297–98, 404n79, 405n83
kinship relations and, 33–34
of the middle class, 280
Mischianza and, 163
normative gender and, 293
social class and, 295–96
sexual sovereignty, 129
sexual vices, 107, 163, 307, 329, 334. See also aristocratic dissipation
Shaffer, Jason, 185
Shakespeare: canonization of, 5, 305
The Critic and, 234–37
Garrick’s relationship to, 205
ghost of Hamlet and, 201
historical allegories and, 234
mourning of Garrick and, 206
Stratford Jubilee and, 82, 305
Shelburnites, 34
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The Camp of, 36, 124, 135, 222, 235, 259
Cowley and, 259–61
The Critic of, 221–23
distraction and, 24–25
The Duenna of, 124–30
interrupted Belle’s Stratagem and, 259–60
Keppel courtmartial and, 195
as mourner for Garrick, 194–99, 205
music and, 132
newspapers and, 14–15
The Rivals of, 17
Rockingham Whigs and, 14–15, 125
The School for Scandal of, 133–37
as theatre manager, 16
“Verses to the Memory of Garrick, spoken as a Monody” of, 208–17. See also The Critic; The Duenna; The School for Scandal; “Verses to the Memory of Garrick, spoken as a Monody”
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), 17, 255
Shirley, Henry, 94
Siddons, Sarah, 19
sign of history (Lyotard), 125, 357
signs, reading of, 9–10, 168, 204
Silverman, Kaja, 357
simulation, 231
slavery, 11. See also abolition of slavery
Smith, Adam, 280
Smith, Francis, 90
Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline and, 320
Joshua and, 354
Judas Maccabaeus and, 349–51
on Samson, 355–56
Smith, William, 237
Smollet, Tobias, 11
sociability: Cowley and, 253, 255
definition of entertainment and, 2–3
empire and, 67
Fête Champêtre and, 47–48, 50, 51–52, 57
hybrid forms of, 357
Indian style of, 353
Which Is the Man? and, 266. See also aristocratic sociability
social class: anxiety about, 107, 134
biopolitics and, 355
deformity and, 297
entertainments and, 2–3
Inkle and Yarico and, 280
inside-outside dynamic and, 299–300
Keppel celebrations and, 246–47
linguistic devices and, 7–9, 109
The Maid of the Oaks and, 66
newspaper format and, 64–65
Perreau-Rudd case, 92
racism and, 297
remediation and, 81
The School for Scandal and, 134
The Upholsterer and, 8
social diagnosis, 136
social insecurity, 92, 107–11, 134–35, 200–201, 205, 212–13, 233
social news, 13. See also scandals
social pathology, 250–52
space, use of: in Cowper’s Task, 22–23
Garrick funeral and, 197
in “A General Index to the Occurrences in June 1775 in Mock Heroic Verse,” 92–93
Handel Commemoration and, 328–30, 338–40, 339fig
The Maid of the Oaks and, 77–78
Mischianza and, 155, 158, 162, 174, 177
political implications of space around Thames river, 97
The School for Scandal and, 136
Thames Regatta and, 92, 95–97, 124
The West Indian and, 218. See also inside-outside dynamic
St. Eustatius, 270
St. James Chronicle, 12, 47–48, 85, 123, 309–11
Staging Governance (O’Quinn), 4
Stanley, Edward, 43–44, 46–47, 67
Staves, Susan, 5
Steele, Richard, 44, 198, 276, 279, 285
Stoler, Ann Laura, 297
Strictures on the Philadelphia Mischianza, 153, 175
succession, 149, 179, 182, 201
suicide, 184–85
A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Possible Consequences of Its Abolition (Clarkson), 280
The Supper Room (Zucchi), 87–88
surrogation, 198, 220, 224, 239, 313–15, 323, 349–50
Tamarkin, Elisa, 385n87, 393n50
Tasca, Signor, 333
The Task (Cowper), 20–24, 37–38, 64, 362
Tasker, William, 222–23
Tatler, 7
Temple of Neptune, 96, 116, 118, 119fig, 120–21, 124
temporal delay, 37–38, 90, 139
The Test (Murphy), 6
Thames regatta: American secession and, 3
anti-Scottish sentiments and, 99–100, 102
aristocracy sociability and, 102
aristocratic dissipation and, 114–15
class mingling and, 110–11, 113–14
costs of, 101
factionalism preceding, 99–101
failure of, 117–18
Fête Champêtre and, 117
flow of money and, 100–102
Gazetteer account of, 97–101
inside-outside dynamic of, 112
Italian influences on, 102
Mischianza and, 155, 156–58, 167, 173
North Ministry and, 103
political commentary surrounding, 112–15
political implications of space around Thames river, 97
remediation of, 92, 110–11, 137
simulation in Drury Lane production of The Waterman and, 110–11, 137
social background of, 93–94
supper of, 122–23
theatre: anxiety and, 36
Calcutta celebrations and, 347
class mingling and, 108–10
The Critic and, 227–28, 230–33
historical events and, 234
inside-outside dynamic of, 31–32
newspapers and, 16–20
newspapers in Cowper’s Task, 21–22
paratextual interaction with audience and, 18
politicization of, 17–20
racialization and, 276
social diagnosis and, 136
Thames Regatta and, 102–4
topicality and, 62–66
Tobin, Beth Fowkes, 346
topicality: The Duenna and, 126
historical events and, 86, 88–89
interrupted Belle’s Stratagem and, 249, 254
interrupted Upholsterer and, 263
The Maid of the Oaks and, 62–64, 65–66, 67, 69
private theatricals and, 45
Saul and, 318
The Upholsterer and, 7
Which Is the Man? and, 266
Town and Country Magazine, 13, 65
tragedy, 178, 227, 234, 316–17
Travels and Voyages into Africa, Asia, America, the East and West-Indies (Moquet), 404n79
Travels in India during the Years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783 (Hodges), 346
Treaty of Utrecht, 287, 348, 351–52
Troost, Linda V., 125
True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (Ligon), 278
Tucker, Josiah, 30
The Upholsterer (Murphy), 6–11, 20–21, 253– 54, 261– 64
value, 238–39, 252, 257–58, 297–99, 300
Vernon, Joseph, 46–47, 53, 58, 116–17, 119
“Verses to the Memory of Garrick, spoken as a Monody” (Sheridan): deixis and, 213–16
frontispiece for, 217fig
newspaper redaction of, 208–14
nonliving objects and, 214–15, 217fig;
Richard Sheridan and, 205
Seward’s poem and, 206–8
spectacle of reception and, 135–36
transience and, 215–17
The West Indian and, 205
vice, 105–7, 148, 176–77, 306–10, 329, 334– 35. See also aristocratic dissipation; civic virtue; virtue
violence: Douglas and, 181
Garrick funeral and, 204–5
Garrick’s Hamlet performances and, 200–201
Gordon riots and, 2
Handel Commemoration and, 324–25
Keppel riots and, 243–44, 245fig, 245–47
mercantilism and, 288–89
Percy and, 138
Saul and, 317
virility, 338
virtue, 305–6, 317, 319, 334, 345. See also civic virtue; vice
Wahrman, Dror, 32–33, 34–36, 139, 356
Warner, William B., 373n2
The Waterman, or the First of August (Dibdin), 102, 136–37
Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 48–50, 53–54
The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 280
Weber, Samuel, 375n24
Weber, William, 304, 306, 318, 339
Werkmeister, Lucyle, 12, 13, 17
The West Indian (Cumberland), 205, 218–20, 275, 281
West Indies, 9–10, 218, 225, 262, 269
Wheeler, David, 178
Which Is the Man? (Cowley), 249, 253, 261–69
Whigs. See Rockingham Whigs
Shelburnites
Whitehead, William, 359–60
whiteness, 275, 279, 294–95, 299
Wilberforce, William, 280
Wilkes, John, 11–12, 14, 92–93, 100–101, 114
Wilkite demonstrations, 190
Wilkite radicals, 34
Wilson, Kathleen, 373n6, 395n12
“Windsor Forest” (Pope), 97, 287–88, 359– 60, 367
women, 157, 163, 168, 170fig, 172–75, 177, 255–56
The Wonder, or A Woman Keeps a Secret (Centlivre), 146
Wordsworth, William, 24, 361, 371
“The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility” (Benjamin), 19–20
xenophobia, 94, 102, 156–57, 169. See also anti-Semitism
“Yardley Oak” (Cowper), 361–62, 364–71
Yates, Mary Ann, 195, 208, 213–15
Zucchi, Antonio, 86–88
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