Antitheatricality and the Body PublicSituating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's Histrio mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's