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Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900 - Democracy, Disorder and the State (Paperback)
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Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900 - Democracy, Disorder and the State (Paperback)
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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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