Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe
Imagination and Resistance
Authors: Morgan, M.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction: Political Theatre and the Theatre of Politics
Pages 1-17
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George Bernard Shaw: The Theatre of Bourgeois Radicalism
Pages 19-47
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Bertolt Brecht: The Theatre of Proletarian Revolution
Pages 49-85
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Jean-Paul Sartre: The Theatre of Situations
Pages 87-115
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Eugène Ionesco: The Theatre of the Absurd
Pages 117-145
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe
- Book Subtitle
- Imagination and Resistance
- Authors
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- M. Morgan
- Series Title
- Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Margot Morgan
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-37038-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137370389
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-37469-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-47706-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 212
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