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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bank, Rosemarie K., contributor.

Series:

Theatre symposium ; Volume 15.

Theatre Symposium ; Volume 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Moral and ethical aspects.

Theater.

Drama.

Moral.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 22, 2014).

ISBN:

0-8173-8022-1

OCLC:

896794911