{"publishers": ["Cambridge University Press"], "subtitle": "Democracy, Disorder and the State", "source_records": ["bwb:9781107182158", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-026.mrc:45492480:3382", "marc:harvard_bibliographic_metadata/20220215_010.bib.mrc:77959610:4246"], "title": "Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500–1900", "number_of_pages": 290, "isbn_13": ["9781107182158"], "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "lc_classifications": ["PN2596.L6F485 2017", "PN2596.L6 F485 2017"], "publish_date": "2017", "key": "/books/OL28632103M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL3449315A"}], "works": [{"key": "/works/OL21150094W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "subjects": ["Theater, great britain, history", "Theater, political aspects"], "lccn": ["2016053238"], "oclc_numbers": ["972901076"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This 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'."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-05T15:36:07.783686"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-16T10:01:20.334478"}}