Antitheatricality and the Body Public

by Lisa A. Freeman

Book Overview

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),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224558
• ISBN13: 9780812224559
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.7"