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Volume 33 of Theatre History Studies explores war. War is a paradoxhorrifying and compelling, galvanizing and devastating, a phenomenon that separates and decimates while at the same time creating and strengthening national identity and community bonds. War is the stuff of great drama.
War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition ofTheatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of work by thirteen innovative scholars whose work explores such topics as theatre performances during war times, theatre written and performed to resist war, and theatre that fosters and promotes war.
The contributors to this volume write poignantly about nationhood and about how warthrough both propaganda and protestdefines a people. The contributors also delve into numerous fascinating themes that transcend time, peoples, nations, and particular conflicts: the foundations of nationalism and the concepts of occupied and occupier, nostalgia and utopia, and patriotism and revolution.
These essays survey a march of civil and international wars spanning three centuries. Arranged chronologically, they invite comparisons between themes and trace the development of the major themes of war. Ideas manifest in the theatre of one period recall ideologies and propaganda of the past, reflect those of the present, and anticipate wars to come.
War and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition ofTheatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of work by thirteen innovative scholars whose work explores such topics as theatre performances during war times, theatre written and performed to resist war, and theatre that fosters and promotes war.
The contributors to this volume write poignantly about nationhood and about how warthrough both propaganda and protestdefines a people. The contributors also delve into numerous fascinating themes that transcend time, peoples, nations, and particular conflicts: the foundations of nationalism and the concepts of occupied and occupier, nostalgia and utopia, and patriotism and revolution.
These essays survey a march of civil and international wars spanning three centuries. Arranged chronologically, they invite comparisons between themes and trace the development of the major themes of war. Ideas manifest in the theatre of one period recall ideologies and propaganda of the past, reflect those of the present, and anticipate wars to come.
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Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix is a professor of theatre and chair of the Department of Theatre at Miami University in Ohio. She is the author ofWearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage and the forthcoming Theatres of War: Civil War Theatre and the Performance of Nationhood in addition to articles and book reviews in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre,Theatre History Studies, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.
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- EditoreUniv of Alabama Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2014
- ISBN 10 0817358072
- ISBN 13 9780817358075
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine310
- RedattoreMullenix Elizabeth Reitz
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