Theatre and governance in Britain, 1500-1900 : democracy, disorder and the state / by Fisher, Tony, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the discourses of theatre and governance -- Origins of the discourse on theatre -- The theatre of the multitude -- Revolts of conduct on the Restoration stage -- Theatre and its publics -- Theatrocracy and the public sphere -- The beggar's opera and the criminal picturesque -- The deontic stage in the eighteenth century: George Lillo's The London merchant -- Theatre in the age of reform -- The governmentalisation of the stage -- The theatre dispositif of the late nineteenth century.…”
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