Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State

di Tony Fisher (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2020

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'.

• Autore: Tony Fisher
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 292 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 397 gr.
• EAN: 9781316633311

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