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UNINA9910811051803321 |
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Theatre and moral order / / contributors Rosemarie K. Bank [and eight others] |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : Southeastern Theatre Conference and The University Alabama Press, , [2007] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (140 p.) |
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Theatre Symposium ; ; Volume 15 |
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Soggetti |
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Theater - Moral and ethical aspects |
Drama |
Moral |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 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 LoweSolving 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; Contributors |
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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 |
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