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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Book is in very good condition”
- Country of Origin
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- ISBN
- 9780817354572
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817354573
ISBN-13
9780817354572
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60670160
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 15 : Theatre and Moral Order
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Theater / General, Theater / History & Criticism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts
Series
Theatre Symposium Ser.
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
4
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
15
Volume Number
Vol. 15
Synopsis
The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform.Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage other in Buffalo Bill s engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called Moral Reform Melodrama in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn s subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans ; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America , during which officials at one of the nation s more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today s polarized moral and political atmosphere.", Investigates how the theatre has been perceived as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. This work also includes essays on the controversy surrounding Tony Kushner's ""Angels"" in America, where officials attempted to censor the production, a reminder that artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted., The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal "Theatre Symposium "investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage "other" in Buffalo Bill's engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called "Moral Reform Melodrama" in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn's subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in "The Feigned Courtesans"; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner "Angels in America", during which officials at one of the nation's more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today's polarized moral and political atmosphere., The essays gathered together in Volume 15 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium investigate how, historically, the theatre has been perceived both as a source of moral anxiety and as an instrument of moral and social reform. Essays consider, among other subjects, ethnographic depictions of the savage "other" in Buffalo Bill's engagement at the Columbian Exposition of 1893; the so-called "Moral Reform Melodrama" in the nineteenth century; charity theatricals and the ways they negotiated standards of middle-class respectability; the figure of the courtesan as a barometer of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century moral and sexual discourse; Aphra Behn's subversion of Restoration patriarchal sexual norms in The Feigned Courtesans ; and the controversy surrounding one production of Tony Kushner Angels in America , during which officials at one of the nation's more prominent liberal arts colleges attempted to censor the production, a chilling reminder that academic and artistic freedom cannot be taken for granted in today's polarized moral and political atmosphere.
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