Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Antitheatricality and the Body Public 1
4. Chapter 1. In the “Publike” Theater of William Prynne’s Histrio-Mastix 11
5. Chapter 2. Political Allegiances and Bodies Public: Jeremy Collier’s A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage 96
6. Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Bodies Public Scotland’s Douglas Controversy 147
7. Chapter 4. Cultivating a Christian Body Public: The Richmond Theater Fire 189
8. Chapter 5. Adjudicating Bodies Public: in NEA v. Finley 241
9. Notes 293
10. Works Cited 327
11. Index 351
12. Acknowledgments 359