Cover; Contents; Introduction. Antitheatricality and the Body Public; Chapter 1. In the "Publike" Theater of William Prynne's Histrio-Mastix; Chapter 2. Political Allegiances and Bodies Public: Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Bodies Public: Scotland's Douglas Controversy; Chapter 4. Cultivating a Christian Body Public: The Richmond Theater Fire; Chapter 5. Adjudicating Bodies Public in NEA v. Finley; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary
In an exploration of antitheatrical incidents from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates that at the heart of antitheatrical disputes lies a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation
