The Princess Conspiracies
On Secrecy, Transparency, and Repertoires of Oppositional Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4553301 |
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| Authors | Marcell Schweitzer (corresponding author), Marlis Schweitzer (0000-0002-3181-1098) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-103 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2025.a957032 |
| OpenAlex | W4409509375 |
| Language | EN |
This essay analyzes how the proliferation of negative imagery in the 1760s gave rise to conspiracy theories that reduced Augusta, the Dowager Princess of Wales to a stock character in a political drama of corruption, deploying techniques that prevail today, as seen most recently in the conspiracy theories that swirled around the current Princess of Wales. Though focusing primarily on political prints, it points to the co-constitutive development of a repertoire of oppositional performance that moved across multiple forms of media, gaining strength through repetition, remixing, citation, and the harnessing of new scenic technologies, including the royals' own use of spectacular transparencies
Computer security · Secrecy · Transparency (behavior · Computer Science · Military History and Strategy · Philippine History and Culture · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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