Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : Democracy, Disorder and the State EPUB
by Tony Fisher
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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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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:16/06/2017
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