Equestrian Drama

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<P><EM>Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays</EM> is a collection of four representative equestrian dramas.</P><P>It includes four annotated plays: <EM>Timour the Tartar</EM> by Matthew G. Lewis, <EM>The Battle of Waterloo</EM> by J. H. Amherst, <EM>Mazeppa</EM> by Henry M. Milner, and <EM>The Whip</EM> by Henry Hamilton and Cecil Raleigh. An introduction precedes the collection, providing the information necessary to understand and contextualize the genre and the plays as both written and performance texts, and within the time period of their original productions, as well as within the larger histories of theatre and equestrian entertainments. Additional related plays are identified, excerpted, and explored, providing readers with a wide range of examples to better understand the development and significance of this unique form of popular theatre. Also identified and explored are significant contributions made to stage technology and design by the patented stage machinery designed f