The civic spectacle
Subtitle: essays on drama and community
By: Mera J. Flaumenhaft.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Drama -- History and criticism.; Theater -- Political aspects.; Literature and society.; Politics and literature.; Theater and society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first three essays are revisions of essays originally published, respectively, in Interpretation (fall 1989), the St. John's review (spring 1984), and Interpretation (May 1978).
Table of contents: title: Seeing justice done : Aeschylus's Oresteia; title: Looking together in Athens : Euripides's Bacchae and the Festival of Dionysus; title: The comic remedy in private spectacle : Machiavelli's Mandragola; title: Three views of Henry V : Shakespeare, Olivier, and Branaugh.