9780472039203: Scenes from Bourgeois Life
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ISBN 10: 0472039202 ISBN 13: 9780472039203
Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2022

Sinossi

Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, characterized by the cultivation of distance. In Nicholas Ridout’s formulation, this distance is produced and maintained at two different scales. First is the distance of the colonial relation, not just in miles between Jamaica and London, but also the social, economic, and psychological distances involved in that relation. The second is the distance of spectatorship, not only of the modern theatregoer as consumer, but the larger and pervasive disposition to observe, comment, and sit in judgment, which becomes characteristic of the bourgeois relation to the rest of the world. This engagingly written study of history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of “why theater matters,” and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.  

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Informazioni sull'autore

Nicholas Ridout is Professor of Theatre at Queen Mary University of London. His many previous books include Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love.

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Editore
Univ of Michigan Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2022
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0472039202
ISBN 13 
9780472039203
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
224
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780472132003: Scenes from Bourgeois Life

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0472132008 ISBN 13:  9780472132003
Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2020
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