ISBN:
9781107428065
,
9780521193276
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 258 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Edition:
First paperback edition
DDC:
306.4848
Keywords:
Theater and society
;
Theater
;
Political aspects
;
Theater
;
Bürgertum
;
Theater
;
Gesellschaft
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: citizenship and theatre -- 2. Athens. Democracy and chorality -- The Frogs -- Plato and Aristotle 3. Florence, Rome and Machiavelli. Machiavelli's political works -- Cicero -- Terence's Andria -- The Mandrake and the Society of the Trowel -- 'The Sunflower' in a politician's garden -- Coda : Goldoni, Ayckbourn and the comic genre -- 4. From Coventry to London. Christian fraternity -- The Weavers' Pageant in Coventry-- Elizabethan London : Shakespeare and Heywood -- John Milton and revolutionary tragedy -- 5. Geneva. Rousseau versus Voltaire : Geneva -- Rousseau : The Letter to d'Alembert -- The battle for a public theatre -- Conclusion : two ideals -- 6. Paris and the French Revolution. Brutus and the active citizen audience -- Tragedy as a school for citizens : the career of M. J. Chenier -- The revolutionary festival -- Diderot and bourgeois realism -- 7. The people, the folk, and the modern public sphere. Collectivism in pre-war Germany -- The Indian People's Theatre Association -- In search of the public sphere -- Epilogue : Washington's monuments to citizenship
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-253) and index
