Theatre and citizenship : the history of a practice /
Wiles, David.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction: citizenship and theatre -- 2. Athens. Democracy and chorality -- The Frogs -- Plato and Aristotle 3. Florence, Rome and Machiavelli. Machiavelli's political works -- Cicero -- Terence's Andria -- The Mandrake and the Society of the Trowel -- 'The Sunflower' in a politician's garden -- Coda : Goldoni, Ayckbourn and the comic genre -- 4. From Coventry to London. Christian fraternity -- The Weavers' Pageant in Coventry-- Elizabethan London : Shakespeare and Heywood -- John Milton and revolutionary tragedy -- 5. Geneva. Rousseau versus Voltaire : Geneva -- Rousseau : The Letter to d'Alembert -- The battle for a public theatre -- Conclusion : two ideals -- 6. Paris and the French Revolution. Brutus and the active citizen audience -- Tragedy as a school for citizens : the career of M. J. Chenier -- The revolutionary festival -- Diderot and bourgeois realism -- 7. The people, the folk, and the modern public sphere. Collectivism in pre-war Germany -- The Indian People's Theatre Association -- In search of the public sphere -- Epilogue : Washington's monuments to citizenship.
Theater and society.
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