Spectacular politics: theatrical power and mass culture in early modern England by Paula R. Backscheider

Spectacular politics: theatrical power and mass culture in early modern England

Paula R. Backscheider

360 pages first pub 1993 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history
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The power of mass culture and the importance of public opinion seem rooted in the technology and political institutions of the twentieth century. But Paula Backscheider finds surprising evidence of their origin in seventeenth-century England. In S...

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