Theatre and Governance in Britain, 15001900 - Democracy, Disorder and the State

Informationen zum Autor Tony Fisher is a Reader in Theatre and Philosophy at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, where he is Associate Director of Research (Research Degrees). He has published a number of journal articles in both theatre and philosophy, and he is the co-editor of books including Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance and Radical Democracy (2016) and Theatre, Performance, Foucault! (forthcoming). Klappentext A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage. Zusammenfassung This book offers a critical re-examination of theatre's relation to the public sphere and shows how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing various 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage. It will interest those working in the area of theatre history and its relation to social history and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The discourses of theatre and governance; Part I. Origins of the Discourse on Theatre: 1. The theatre of the multitude; 2. Revolts of conduct on the Restoration stage; Part II. Theatre and its Publics: 3. Theatrocracy and the public sphere; 4. The Beggar's Opera and the criminal picturesque; 5. The deontic stage in the eighteenth century: George Lillo's The London Merchant; Part III. Theatre in the Age of Reform: 6. The governmentalisation of the stage; 7. The theatre dispositif of the late-nineteenth century.

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• Authors: Tony Fisher, Fisher Tony
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107182158
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18215-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Theatre Studies, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Politics and government, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards