Antitheatricality and the Body Public / / Lisa A. Freeman.
Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In stu...
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Freeman, Lisa A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Antitheatricality and the Body Public / Lisa A. Freeman. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016] ©2017 1 online resource (376 p.) : 24 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Haney Foundation Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antitheatricality and the Body Public -- Chapter 1. In the "Publike" Theater of William Prynne's Histrio-Mastix -- Chapter 2. Political Allegiances and Bodies Public: Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Bodies Public Scotland's Douglas Controversy -- Chapter 4. Cultivating a Christian Body Public: The Richmond Theater Fire -- Chapter 5. Adjudicating Bodies Public: in NEA v. Finley -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's Histrio-mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's Douglas (1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998) Freeman engages in a careful examination of the political, religious, philosophical, literary, and dramatic contexts in which challenges to theatricality unfold. In so doing, she demonstrates that however differently "the public" might be defined in each epoch, what lies at the heart of antitheatrical disputes is a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.By situating antitheatrical incidents as rich and interpretable cultural performances, Freeman seeks to account fully for the significance of these particular historical conflicts. She delineates when, why, and how anxieties about representation manifest themselves, and traces the actual politics that govern such ostensibly aesthetic and moral debates even today. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020) Art and society Great Britain History Case studies. Art and society United States History Case studies. Art Moral and ethical aspects Great Britain History Case studies. Art Moral and ethical aspects United States History Case studies. Cultural Studies. Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 9783110550306 print 9780812248739 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293555 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812293555 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812293555.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antitheatricality and the Body Public -- Chapter 1. In the "Publike" Theater of William Prynne's Histrio-Mastix -- Chapter 2. Political Allegiances and Bodies Public: Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Bodies Public Scotland's Douglas Controversy -- Chapter 4. Cultivating a Christian Body Public: The Richmond Theater Fire -- Chapter 5. Adjudicating Bodies Public: in NEA v. Finley -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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