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Antitheatricality and the Body Public

Lisa A. Freeman

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Description:Lisa A. Freeman situates the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts and 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 "Histriomastix" (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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Antitheatricality and the Body Public. To get started finding Antitheatricality and the Body Public, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Lisa A. Freeman situates the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts and 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 "Histriomastix" (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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Antitheatricality and the Body Public. To get started finding Antitheatricality and the Body Public, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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