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“Antitheatricality” as a book category gathers works that critique, resist, or problematize theater, performance, and spectacle—often arguing that acting, display, and role-playing threaten truth, morality, social order, or authentic selfhood. It includes primary polemics (from Plato, church fathers, Puritans, Enlightenment moralists) that condemn the stage as deceptive or corrupting; historical and theoretical studies that trace and analyze this anti-theatrical prejudice; and criticism exploring how societies regulate performance, gender display, affect, and the body. Books in this category examine themes such as authenticity versus simulation, civic virtue versus distraction, manipulation of audiences, the ethics of representation, and the politics of visibility—from classical and early modern attacks on the playhouse to modern skepticism toward mass media, celebrity culture, and performative identities.

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