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Treating the Public - Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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Treating the Public - Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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In Treating the Public, Rachael Ball presents a comparative history
of commercial theater, public opinion, and charitable organizations
in eight cities across the Spanish and Anglo-Atlantic worlds during
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This innovative study
uncovers the rapid expansion of public drama into urban daily life
in the Spanish Atlantic, revealing the means by which men and women
provided and sought theatrical entertainment while practicing
Catholic piety and working to aid the poor. Ball focuses her
analysis on the theaters of Madrid, Seville, Mexico City, and
Puebla de los Angeles, which she compares to English-speaking
theaters throughout the Atlantic world in cities and towns
including London, Bristol, Dublin, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Ball
shows how the corrales de comedias, or inn-yard theaters, became
staples of city life throughout Spain and the Spanish Atlantic.
This development stemmed, she argues, from a tremendous output of
dramatic works and from the theaters' charitable activities that
included donating a percentage of admission fees to hospitals and
orphanages. As a result, groups like theatrical companies,
religious lay brotherhoods, city leaders, and hospitals forged
collaborative relationships which at once allowed the corrales to
flourish and protected theaters as charitable institutions. Ball
highlights the uniqueness of this system by contrasting it with
public drama in England, where financial dependence on courtly and
noble patronage slowed the spread of regular theatrical
performances to provincial cities and colonial centers. Using an
array of archival and print sources, Ball links the largely
disconnected national histories of Spanish, English, and colonial
American theaters. Treating the Public uncovers the depth of the
comedia tradition that flourished in early modern Spain as well as
the geographic scope of the Spanish theater as a political, social,
and cultural institution.
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