Morosetti, Tiziana. 2015. From Byron to Byron: Mazeppa and the Tartars in Nineteenth-Century British Theatre. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 42(2), pp. 228-245. ISSN 1748-3727 [Article]

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Lord Byron’s Mazeppa (via Henry Milner’s 1831 adaptation) and ‘Monk’ Lewis’s Timour the Tartar (1811) had a decisive, although at times elusive influence on Victorian playwrights such as Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, John Oxenford, Francis Burnand and H. J. Byron, second cousin to the poet. The presence and representation of the Tartars on the nineteenth-century British stage will be explored through an examination of this influence. It will be argued that Lord Byron and ‘Monk’ Lewis worked not only as major turning points in the construction of the Tartars in nineteenth-century Britain but also as links between the ‘high-brow’ world of Romantic poetry and the ‘low-brow’ landscape of Victorian popular entertainment – both enhancing existing racial stereotypes around the Tartars and the East more generally.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372716636550
Additional Information:	The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under REA grant agreement n° 299000.
Keywords:	Mazeppa, Tartars, Byron, exotic, stereotype
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Theatre and Performance (TAP)
Dates:	Date Event 22 October 2016 Published Online October 2015 Published
Item ID:	36605
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2024 12:55
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 12:55
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36605

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