This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.

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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.

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Book Title: Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe
Book Subtitle: Imagination and Resistance
Authors: Margot Morgan
Series Title: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137370389
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-37469-1Published: 18 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47706-7Published: 18 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37038-9Published: 18 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2731-6580
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 212
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Political Science, Political History

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Political Theatre and the Theatre of Politics

George Bernard Shaw: The Theatre of Bourgeois Radicalism

Bertolt Brecht: The Theatre of Proletarian Revolution

Jean-Paul Sartre: The Theatre of Situations

Eugène Ionesco: The Theatre of the Absurd

Conclusion: Political Theatre as Political Practice

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