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The Volksbühne movement : a history / Cecil Davies.

Title: The Volksbühne movement : a history / Cecil Davies.
Author: Davies, Cecil W. (Cecil William)
Publication: Amsterdam : Harwood Academic, c2000.

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xv, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary theatre studies ; v. 33

Uniform Title

Contemporary theatre studies v. 33.

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History

Note

Previously published in 1977 as: Theatre for the people. Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, and Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Contents

Introduction to the series -- Acknowledgements -- List of plates -- Preface -- Prologue. Before 1890: the prehistory of the Volksbühne -- Act I. 1890-1914: From Brauhaus to Bülowplatz. Scene i. The first decade ; Scene ii. Developments outside Berlin ; Scene iii. Into the twentieth century -- First intermission. 1914-1918: War and revolution -- Act II. 1918-1933: The Volksbühne in the Weimar Republic. Scene i. Berlin ; Scene ii. Nationwide growth, 1918-1930 -- Second intermission. The Nazis: 'Night over Germany' -- Act III. The Volksbühne since 1945. Scene i. In Berlin and East Germany ; Scene ii. The later history of the Volksbühne Federation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Principal sources -- Appendices -- Index.

ISBN

905755089X
9057550903 (pbk.)

OCLC

40980320
SCSB-11714455

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Harvard Library