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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811051803321

Titolo

Theatre and moral order / / contributors Rosemarie K. Bank [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : Southeastern Theatre Conference and The University Alabama Press, , [2007]

©[2007]

ISBN

0-8173-8022-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Collana

Theatre Symposium ; ; Volume 15

Disciplina

792.013

Soggetti

Theater - Moral and ethical aspects

Drama

Moral

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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