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Antitheatricality and the Body Public (Paperback)
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Antitheatricality and the Body Public (Paperback)
Series: Haney Foundation Series
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Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and
conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents
from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with
occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of
power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's
Histrio-mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the
Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's
Douglas (1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and
the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in National Endowment for the
Arts v. Finley (1998) Freeman engages in a careful examination of
the political, religious, philosophical, literary, and dramatic
contexts in which challenges to theatricality unfold. In so doing,
she demonstrates that however differently "the public" might be
defined in each epoch, what lies at the heart of antitheatrical
disputes is a struggle over the character of the body politic that
governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to
represent that nation. By situating antitheatrical incidents as
rich and interpretable cultural performances, Freeman seeks to
account fully for the significance of these particular historical
conflicts. She delineates when, why, and how anxieties about
representation manifest themselves, and traces the actual politics
that govern such ostensibly aesthetic and moral debates even today.
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