Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900
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Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900
Democracy, Disorder and the State
Fisher, Tony
Cambridge University Press
06/2017
290
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Inglês
9781107182158
15 a 20 dias
This book offers a critical re-examination of theatre's relation to the public sphere and shows how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing various 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage. It will interest those working in the area of theatre history and its relation to social history and politics.
Introduction. The discourses of theatre and governance; Part I. Origins of the Discourse on Theatre: 1. The theatre of the multitude; 2. Revolts of conduct on the Restoration stage; Part II. Theatre and its Publics: 3. Theatrocracy and the public sphere; 4. The Beggar's Opera and the criminal picturesque; 5. The deontic stage in the eighteenth century: George Lillo's The London Merchant; Part III. Theatre in the Age of Reform: 6. The governmentalisation of the stage; 7. The theatre dispositif of the late-nineteenth century.
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This book offers a critical re-examination of theatre's relation to the public sphere and shows how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing various 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage. It will interest those working in the area of theatre history and its relation to social history and politics.
Introduction. The discourses of theatre and governance; Part I. Origins of the Discourse on Theatre: 1. The theatre of the multitude; 2. Revolts of conduct on the Restoration stage; Part II. Theatre and its Publics: 3. Theatrocracy and the public sphere; 4. The Beggar's Opera and the criminal picturesque; 5. The deontic stage in the eighteenth century: George Lillo's The London Merchant; Part III. Theatre in the Age of Reform: 6. The governmentalisation of the stage; 7. The theatre dispositif of the late-nineteenth century.
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