Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-270) and index.
Contents:
Prologue : the atlas of the stage and state -- Representing (mis)representations. First principles : the American War and the playwright patriot -- Gross deceptions : newspapers, theatre, and the propaganda war -- Rhetorics of atrocity. Tyranny in India ; or, Britain's character lost : a tragedy -- Hear Me! : Pizarro and the politics of silence -- Revolutionary stage effects. Managing performance : state, spectacle, spectator -- Systems of terror : the scenography of incarceration -- Epilogue : Sherry Andrews and the antitheatricality of politics.
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