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Theatre and governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : democracy, disorder and the state / Tony Fisher, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

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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 volum...

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Main Author: Fisher, Tony, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Theater > England > London > History > 16th century.
Theater > England > London > History > 17th century.
Theater > England > London > History > 18th century.
Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 16th century.
Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Theater > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Theater.
Theater > Political aspects.
England > London.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the discourses of theatre and governance
  • Origins of the discourse on theatre
  • The theatre of the multitude
  • Revolts of conduct on the Restoration stage
  • Theatre and its publics
  • Theatrocracy and the public sphere
  • The beggar's opera and the criminal picturesque
  • The deontic stage in the eighteenth century: George Lillo's The London merchant
  • Theatre in the age of reform
  • The governmentalisation of the stage
  • The theatre dispositif of the late nineteenth century.

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