Jessica Wardhaugh

Broschiertes Buch

Popular Theatre and Political Utopia in France, 1870-1940

Active Citizens

Beschreibung

This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world. As the French found innovative ways of imagining culture and politics in the age of the masses, popular theatre became central to the republican project of using art to create citizens, using secular spaces for the experience of civic communion. But while state projects often faltered in finding playwrights, locations, and audiences, popular theatre flourished on the political and geographical peripheries. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book illuminates lost worlds of political conviviality, from anarchist communes and clandestine agit-prop drama to royalist street politics and right-wing mass spectacle. It reveals new connections between French initiatives and their European counterparts, and demonstrates the enduring strength of radical communities in shaping political ideals and engagement.

Autor

Jessica Wardhaugh is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, where she researches and teaches on French politics and culture. Her first monograph with Palgrave (2009) was a study of street politics in 1930s France. She has also edited books on Paris and the Right, and politics and the individual.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-95589-3
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9781349955893
• ISBN-10: 1349955892
• Artikelnr.: 55129511

Rezensionen

"Popular Theatre and Political Utopia gives us both telling vignettes and a broad overview of theatre that sought collective transcendence during the Third Republic. By doing so, it sheds light on a vast realm of performances that is rarely mapped out in works this comprehensive or this richly researched." (Cary Hollinshead-Strick, H-France Review, Vol. 18 (230), December, 2018)