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THEATER OF CAPITAL : modern drama and economic life 🔍
Alisa Zhulina Northwestern University Press, Performance Works, 1, 2024
English [en] · PDF · 4.6MB · 2024 · 📘 Book (non-fiction) · 🚀/lgli/lgrs · Save
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Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era
Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siècle playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, and Gerhart Hauptmann interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept. Acutely aware of their complicity in the system they sought to challenge, these playwrights staged economic questions as moral and political concerns, using their plays to explore the theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, and others within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.
Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life reveals the prescient and unsettling visions of life in a new financial and societal reality in now-canonical plays such as A Doll’s House , Miss Julie , and The Cherry Orchard , as well as in lesser-known and long-overlooked works. This wide-ranging study prompts us to reevaluate modern drama and its legacy for the urgent economic and political questions that haunt our present moment.
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lgrsnf/Theater of Capital.pdf
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Marlboro Press, The
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TriQuarterly Books
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Hydra Books
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United States, United States of America
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S.l, 2024
date open sourced
2024-11-07
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