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Antitheatricality and the Body Public

2017 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 9780812248739 ;ISBN: 0812248732 ;ISBN: 081229355X ;ISBN: 9780812293555 ;EISBN: 081229355X ;EISBN: 9780812293555 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812293555 ;OCLC: 965722916

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  • Title:
    Antitheatricality and the Body Public
  • Author: Freeman, Lisa A
  • Subjects: Art and society ; Censorship ; Culture conflict ; Language & Literature ; Performing Arts ; Social conflict ; Theater ; Theater and society
  • Description: 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'sHistrio-mastix(1633), Jeremy Collier'sA Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage(1698), John Home'sDouglas(1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision inNational 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.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
  • Creation Date: 2016
  • Format: 376
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780812248739
    ISBN: 0812248732
    ISBN: 081229355X
    ISBN: 9780812293555
    EISBN: 081229355X
    EISBN: 9780812293555
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812293555
    OCLC: 965722916
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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