Theatre and moral order / [editor, M. Scott Phillips].
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Greensboro, NC :
Southeastern Theatre Conference,
[2007]
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| Series: | Theatre symposium ;
v. 15. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Papers from the 15th annual SETC Theatre Symposium held at Agnes Scott College in April 2006. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (139 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780817380229 0817380221 |