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Theatre and moral order /

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 sav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.)
Otros Autores: Phillips, M. Scott (Matthew Scott)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Greensboro, NC : Southeastern Theatre Conference, [2007]
Colección:Theatre symposium ; v. 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Don't let what really happened get in the way of the truth : reflections on theatre, ethics, and "the moral order" / Rosemarie K. Bank
  • What moral order? : observations from the trenches / Steve Scott
  • William Dunlap, father of American theatre--and American antitheatricality / David Carlyon
  • "Not from the drowsy pulpit!" : the moral reform melodrama on the nineteenth-century stage / John W. Frick
  • Tainted money? : nineteenth-century charity theatricals / Eileen Curley
  • The doomed courtesan and her moral reformers / Rachel Rusch
  • Gender and (im)morality in Restoration comedy : Aphra Behn's The feigned courtesans / Leah Lowe
  • Solving the Laramie problem, or, Projecting onto Laramie / Roger Freeman
  • The advantage of controversy : Angels in America and campus culture wars / James Fisher
  • Excerpt from the Symposium response / Steve Scott.