| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge revivals. History workshop series |
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Routledge revivals.
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History workshop series.
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| Contents |
Chapter Part 1 Theatre and socialism in Britain (1880-1935) -Raphael Samuel -- part Part 2 The Workers' Theatre Movement (1926-1935) -- chapter Narrative -- chapter Documents -- chapter Scripts -- part Part 3 The Yiddish-speaking WTM -- chapter Narrative -- chapter Documents -- part Part 4 The debate on naturalism -- chapter Documents -- part Part 5 Proletkult: a view from the Plebs League -- chapter Document -- part Part 6 Some origins o f Theatre Workshop -- chapter Narrative -- part Part 7 The political stage in the United States -- chapter History -- chapter Documents -- chapter Scripts |
| Summary |
First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist--perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment--and an emancipatory act. An introductory study relates left-wing theatre groupings to the cultural narratives of contemporary British socialism. The progress of the Workers' Theatre Movement (1928-1935) is traced from simple realism to the most brilliant phase of its Russian and German development alongside which the parallel movements in the United States are also examined. A number of crucial texts are reprints as well as stage notes and glimpses of the dramaturgical controversies which accompanied them |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1985 by Routledge & Kegan Paul |
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Includes index |
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Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 16, 2016) |
| Subject |
Workers' theater.
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Political plays.
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Theater -- Political aspects
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Socialism and literature -- Great Britain
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Socialism and literature -- United States
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Political plays
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Socialism and literature
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Theater -- Political aspects
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Workers' theater
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacColl, Ewan, author.
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Cosgrove, Stuart, author
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| ISBN |
9781315445953 |
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1315445956 |
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