Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500–1900
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-18215-8 (ISBN)
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'.
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).
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.06.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-107-18215-8 / 1107182158 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-18215-8 / 9781107182158 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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