{"product_id":"9781316863596","title":"Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State","description":"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'.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146846224624,"sku":"9781316863596","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316863596_p0.jpg?v=1763707837","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316863596","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}