Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- TFIS3
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781316855966
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781316855966
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- ‘Theatre and Governance’ is a 120,000-word monograph that offers an extended reading of the history of British theatre in its complex relation to state, society and public sphere. Drawing on comprehensive archival research, undertaken over an eight-year period, the book evidences, through wide-ranging historical case studies, why the stage was of great concern to government. It investigates its theme in considerable depth through close readings of religious, moral, political, economic and legal disputes over the role, purpose and function of the stage in the well-ordered society; and devises a philosophically informed interdisciplinary method for uncovering the governmental ‘discourse on theatre’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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