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THEATRE AND GOVERNANCE IN BRITAIN, 1500-1900
DEMOCRACY, DISORDER AND THE STATE |
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Tony Fisher |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
1107182158 |
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9781107182158 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
16 June, 2017 |
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250 |
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A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage. |
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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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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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