Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe: Imagination and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781137374691 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str.

Margot Morgan

Opis

By examining four playwrights - George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eugene Ionesco - Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe looks at how political theatre has unraveled in the modern era due to the 'art of separation, ' whe

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Political Theatre as Political Theory 2. George Bernard Shaw: The Theatre of Bourgeois Radicalism 3. Bertolt Brecht: The Theatre of Proletarian Revolution 4. Jean-Paul Sartre: The Theatre of Situations 5. Eugène Ionesco: The Theatre of the Absurd 6. Conclusion: Political Theatre as Political Practice

O autorze

Margot Morgan is Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Southeast, USA. She currently serves as Book Review Managing Editor for Perspectives on Politics, a flagship journal of the American Political Science Association.