Theatre and governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : democracy, disorder and the state /
This book begins with a simple observation, that just as the theater 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | This book begins with a simple observation, that just as the theater 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 theater's relation to the public sphere. Employing a series of historical case studies drawn from the London theater, 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 theater.' |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 282 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107182158 1107182158 |