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Author:

Ball, Rachael, 1980- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016052715

Title:

Treating the public : charitable theater and civic health in the early modern Atlantic world / Rachael Ball.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

ix, 212 pages : map ; 23 cm

Subject:

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Theater--Great Britain--History--16th century.
Theater--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Spanish drama--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Theater--Spain--History--16th century.
Theater--Spain--History--17th century.
Latin American drama--16th century--History and criticism.
Latin American drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Theater--Latin America--History--16th century.
Theater--Latin America--History--17th century.
Theater and society.
English drama.
English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan.
Latin American drama.
Spanish drama--Classical period.
Theater.
Theater and society.
Great Britain.
Latin America.
Spain.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: public theater and public health in the Early Modern Atlantic world -- "The money that comes from the plays": comedies and charitable urban public health -- Institutions in Madrid and London -- Playing in the port: theater in early modern Seville and Bristol -- Comedies in colonial contexts: theater in early modern Mexico City and Dublin -- "Aware that it is a public work": commercial drama in Puebla and Williamsburg -- "The plague of the Republic": antitheatrical sentiment and its limits in the Atlantic world -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

0807165085
9780807165089

OCLC:

(OCoLC)957739769

LCCN:

2016027052

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)