Theatre and governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : democracy, disorder and the state /

Theatre and governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : democracy, disorder and the state /

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Author / Creator:Fisher, Tony, 1964- author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description:ix, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.
Theater -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century.
Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Theater -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Theater.
Theater -- Political aspects.
England -- London.
Great Britain.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182707
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ISBN:9781107182158
1107182158
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This book begins with a simple observation - that just as the theatre resurfaced during the late Renaissance, so too government as we understand it today also began to appear. Their mutually entwining history was to have a profound influence on the development of the modern British stage. This volume proposes a new reading of theatre's relation to the public sphere. Employing a series of historical case studies drawn from the London theatre, Tony Fisher shows why the stage was of such great concern to government by offering close readings of well-known religious, moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role, purpose and function of the stage in the 'well-ordered society'. In framing these disputes in relation to what Michel Foucault called the emerging 'art of government', this book draws out - for the first time - a full genealogy of the governmental 'discourse on the theatre'.

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