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Dangerous Passions
Jones, Gareth Stedman | June 28, 1986 issue

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The article focuses on a book "World's Apart: The Market and the Theater in Anglo-American Thought, 1550-1750," by Jean-Christophe Agnew. Building imaginatively on Mikhail Bakhtin's treatment of the carnival and Victor Turner's conceptions of ritual and liminality, Agnew is able to demonstrate far more powerfully than previous writers why the new forms assumed by Elizabethan and Jacobean theater were so disturbing to contemporaries. Particularly impressive is the way in which Agnew traces the transposition of the stage, the actor and the spectator into political and philosophical discourse, from Hobbes to Smith, as a metaphor for the understanding of society and politics.

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WORLDS Apart: The Market & the Theater in Anglo-American Thought 1550-1750 (Book); AGNEW, Jean-Christophe; BAKHTIN, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhailovich), 1895-1975; THEATER; ACTORS; METAPHOR; POLITICS, Practical
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