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1 online resource (vii, 216 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : theatre, performance, and the public sphere / Robert B. Shimko and Sara Freeman -- Influence of Lloyd Richards / Harvey Young -- High-brow, low-brow, one-brow, and no-brow : revisiting "class" and women in nineteenth-century U.S. theatre / Rosemarie K. Bank -- Tasteful publics and public tastes : theatre criticism and the construction of community in eighteenth-century London / Natalya Baldyga -- "Debunking the debunkers" : Gilbert Seldes, modernism, and popular entertainment / Jennifer Schlueter -- Invoking the Druids : Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem and theological politics / Leslie A. Wade -- Getting to know you (and by the way, are you going to Hell when you die?) : evangelical outreach to post-Christian publics / John Fletcher -- "A portly savage, plump and pigeon-toed" : John Brougham's Po-Ca-Hon-Tas and the divergent theatregoing public of nineteenth-century New York / Tyler A. Smith -- Going public with grief : coupling mourning with militancy / Jayson A. Morrison -- Autobiographical memory, museums, and objectivity in Federico León's Museo Miguel Ángel Boezzio / Noe Montez -- Foreign texts and domestic politics : making torture public in contemporary Egyptian drama / George Potter -- Performance, preparedness, and playing with fire : Major General O'Ryan and U.S. military theatricality in the World War I era / DeAnna M. Toten Beard -- Weimar sexual politics : homosexual desire in the early plays of Bertolt Brecht / Alan Sikes -- Let us sally forth into this perverse world : the Marquis de Sade, performance, and the decadent imagination / Jessica Hester -- Coming out at the Caffe Cino : emancipation from the dramatic closet in Lanford Wilson's The madness of Lady Bright / Jeff Grace -- "As newly ravish'd" : the actress as sexual spectacle in the Late Stuart theatre / Matthew Shifflett -- "Playing missionary in Harlem?" : race, public policy, and birth control crusaders in the Harlem Renaissance / Christine Woodworth. |
| Summary |
Public Theatres and Theatre Publics presents sixteen focused investigations that connect theatre and performance studies with public sphere theory. The organizing critical lens of publics and publicness allows for the chapters to speak to one another other across time periods and geographies, inviting readers to think about how performing in public shapes and circulates concepts of identity, notions of taste or belonging, markers of class, and possibilities for political agency. Each essay pr ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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Drama. |
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Theater.
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Theater. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Shimko, Robert B.
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Freeman, Sara, 1973-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1443837849 9781443837842 |
| ISBN |
1443838616 (electronic book) |
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9781443838610 (electronic book) |
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1299644007 (e-book) |
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9781299644007 (e-book) |
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1443837849 |
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9781443837842 |
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