id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt vq27zk54c58 Cheman Rachel Roy With Universal Applause: The Exotic and Eighteenth Century Afterpieces 2008 .txt text/plain 283 8 22 Future United Irish leader, barrister, and playwright Leonard MacNally combined the Robin Hood trope with earlier eighteenth century constructions and the subsequent eradication of piracy by the Royal Navy as a means of advocating for a more peaceful resolution that could include Britain's 'exotic' citizens rather than its usual approach of preemptive exclusion and extermination. As this work discusses, British theater became an emblem of the universality of British civility and British commerce even as its more popular form, the afterpiece, created a series of uncomfortable anxieties about the character and integrity of the Empire. cache/vq27zk54c58.txt txt/vq27zk54c58.txt