{"product_id":"theatre-and-governance-in-britain-1500-1900-democracy-disorder-and-the-state-9781107182158","title":"Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tony Fisher\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47595664507031,"sku":"9781107182158","price":13272.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781107182158.webp?v=1774990643","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/theatre-and-governance-in-britain-1500-1900-democracy-disorder-and-the-state-9781107182158","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}