Theater of Capital

Modern Drama and Economic Life

Alisa Zhulina (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4635-8 (ISBN)

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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-siecle playwrights such as Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept.

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.

Alisha Zhulina is an assistant professor in the Department of Drama at New York University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Finance Capital: Henrik Ibsen and the Invisible Hand
Chapter 2: The Dowry versus Erotic Capital: The Drama of Courtship in Strindberg, Shaw, and Benedictsson
Chapter 3: Casino Capitalism: Anton Chekhov and Gambling
Chapter 4: Labor and Strike: Gerhart Hauptmann’s The Weavers and Its Legacy in German Expressionism
Coda
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	02.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	Performance Works
Zusatzinfo	3 b&w images
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8101-4635-5 / 0810146355
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4635-8 / 9780810146358
Zustand	Neuware