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The national stage : theatre and cultural legitimation in England, France, and America / Loren Kruger.

Title
The national stage : theatre and cultural legitimation in England, France, and America / Loren Kruger.
Author
Kruger, Loren.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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Description
viii, 246 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Theater > England
  • Theater > France
  • Theater > Political aspects > England
  • Theater > Political aspects > France
  • Theater > Political aspects > United States
  • Theater > United States
  • Theater and society > England
  • Theater and society > France
  • Theater and society > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Theatrical nationhood and popular legitimation -- National stage, public sphere -- From iIdeological state apparatus to legitimate institution -- Placing the occasion: The institution of theatre -- Impure autonomy and the dramatic text -- Hegemony high and low: The place of popular theatre -- 2. "Theatre to contain a people": National popular theatre in republican France -- Theatre as "rapprochement": Michelet and popular unity -- The people advance: Social(ist) theatre and popular sovereignty -- Theatre to contain a people: The orchestration of Rolland -- Danton on display: The people in attendance -- Theatre as public service -- 3. "Our National House": Patronizing the English National Theatre -- A national house for the middle class: Wilson to Arnold -- Barker's schemes and estimates for a national patron -- Strife at court: Staging national reconciliation -- "Our National House": Debates on a national theatre -- 4. "A people's theatre": Art, democracy, and the federal theatre -- "Theatre as a weapon": The dramaturgy of class struggle -- "A theatre is born": The art of the weapon -- "The greatest achievement is the creation of an audience" -- "The most native form": The living newspaper and the nation.
ISBN
  • 0226454967 (alk. paper)
  • 0226454975 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
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Owning Institutions
Harvard Library