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

ISBN-13: 9781316633311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 292 str.

Tony Fisher

Opis

A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage.

Recenzje

'In this masterful and original study, Fisher combines philosophical reflection, discourse analysis and substantial archival research to produce a new way of considering the symbiotic relationship between state and theatre. While focused on English theatre history between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, its approach could and should be applied with profit to other countries as well.' Christopher Balme, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Spis treści

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.