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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 24 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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