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Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : Democracy, Disorder and the State, Paperback / softback Book

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

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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'.

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