TY - BOOK ID - 17601788 TI - Antitheatricality and the body public PY - 2017 SN - 9780812248739 0812248732 9780812224559 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Theater and society KW - Art and society KW - Theater KW - Art KW - Censorship KW - Culture conflict KW - Social conflict KW - History KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Prynne, William, KW - Collier, Jeremy, KW - Home, John, KW - Finley, Karen. KW - Miller, Tim, KW - Richmond Theater (Richmond, Va.) KW - National Endowment for the Arts. KW - Fire, 1811. KW - Theatrical science KW - drama [literature] KW - Theater and society - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Theater and society - United States - History - Case studies KW - Art and society - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Art and society - United States - History - Case studies KW - Theater - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Theater - Moral and ethical aspects - United States - History - Case studies KW - Art - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Art - Moral and ethical aspects - United States - History - Case studies KW - Censorship - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Censorship - United States - History - Case studies KW - Culture conflict - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Culture conflict - United States - History - Case studies KW - Social conflict - Great Britain - History - Case studies KW - Social conflict - United States - History - Case studies KW - Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Histrio-mastix KW - Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726. Short view of the immorality and profaneness of the English stage KW - Home, John, 1722-1808. Douglas KW - Finley, Karen KW - Miller, Tim, 1958 KW - -Theatrical science KW - -Theater and society KW - drama [discipline] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17601788 AB - 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's Histrio-mastix (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. ER -