Theatre & nation
By: Nadine Holdsworth
Series: Theatre&; Theatre&
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
ISBN-13: 9780230218710
Subjects: Theater; History and criticism; Drama; Theater and society; Theater and state; National characteristics in the theater; Nationalism in literature; Political aspects; National characteristics in literature
Other titles: Theatre and nation; Theater and nation
Description: "Throughout the history of the nation-state, theatre has contributed to the construction and reappraisal of the nation and national identities. This book argues that ideas of the nation are constantly in flux and explores the way theatre engages with such changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural climates"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nation, national identity and nationalism; title: National theatres and state-of-the nation plays; title: Nations under duress; title: National iconography; title: Cosmopolitanism : beyond the nation.