Jeremy Bentham Archives - Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:17:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 ‘Sinking stages’ – Jeremy Bentham and the education of pauper children http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/sinking-stages-jeremy-bentham-and-the-education-of-pauper-children/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/sinking-stages-jeremy-bentham-and-the-education-of-pauper-children/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2014 13:30:40 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=132 Post by Jenny Hughes Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), famously Liberal and utilitarian, is perhaps best known for his advocacy of ‘panopticon’ architectures for prisons, asylums, hospitals and schools. A panopticon is a circular building, with cells on an outside perimeter and an inspection tower in the centre. They are constructed according […]

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