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Governmental Support to the Theatre in Great Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Ronald E. Sherriffs
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Extract

General acceptance of the concept of theatre as an institution possessing positive values worthy of public support is a comparatively recent development in the history of the British theatre. The traditional public attitudes which were unfavorable to theatre (focal point of disorder, disease, moral corruption, and sinful activity) were created during the sixteenth-century power struggle between the Crown, London authorities, and the Church. The formulation of public attitudes favorable to theatre (aesthetic, social, moral, and intellectual stimuli) began when theatre became an agent of social change in the nineteenth century.

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Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 1965 , pp. 91 - 115
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1965

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