{"product_id":"playing-out-the-empire-ben-hur-and-other-toga-plays-and-films-1883-1908-a-critical-anthology-9780198119906","title":"Playing Out the Empire: Ben-Hur and Other Toga Plays and Films, 1883-1908. a Critical Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Mayer | III Mayer David | III Mayer David\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"toga play\" is a genre of theatrical melodrama which flourished in the late nineteenth century and which re-emerged in silent cinema and later Hollywood \"epics.\" This first collection of the most important playscripts and film scenarios of toga plays includes the popular Victorian melodrama \u003cem\u003eThe Sign of the Cross\u003c\/em\u003e (1895), \u003cem\u003eClaudian\u003c\/em\u003e (1883), \u003cem\u003eThe Last Days of Pompeii\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBen Hur\u003c\/em\u003e (both the play and the film), \u003cem\u003eThe Charioteer\u003c\/em\u003e, and D.W. Griffith's earliest toga film, \u003cem\u003eThe Barbarian Ingomar\u003c\/em\u003e (1908). David Mayer's detailed introductions show how the plays cast new light on Victorian attitudes toward issues of class, gender, religion, and imperialism. The volume is generously illustrated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46893422280855,"sku":"9780198119906","price":17316.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198119906.webp?v=1770316127","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/playing-out-the-empire-ben-hur-and-other-toga-plays-and-films-1883-1908-a-critical-anthology-9780198119906","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}