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Popular Theatre and Political Utopia in France, 1870—1940 (eBook)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XVI, 357 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-59855-4 (ISBN)

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Popular Theatre and Political Utopia in France, 1870—1940 - Jessica Wardhaugh
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This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world. As the French found innovative ways of imagining culture and politics in the age of the masses, popular theatre became central to the republican project of using art to create citizens, using secular spaces for the experience of civic communion. But while state projects often faltered in finding playwrights, locations, and audiences, popular theatre flourished on the political and geographical peripheries. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book illuminates lost worlds of political conviviality, from anarchist communes and clandestine agit-prop drama to royalist street politics and right-wing mass spectacle. It reveals new connections between French initiatives and their European counterparts, and demonstrates the enduring strength of radical communities in shaping political ideals and engagement.


Jessica Wardhaugh is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, where she researches and teaches on French politics and culture. Her first monograph with Palgrave (2009) was a study of street politics in 1930s France. She has also edited books on Paris and the Right, and politics and the individual.
This book is the first study of popular theatre in France from left to right, exploring how theatre shapes political acts, ideals, and communities in the modern world. As the French found innovative ways of imagining culture and politics in the age of the masses, popular theatre became central to the republican project of using art to create citizens, using secular spaces for the experience of civic communion. But while state projects often faltered in finding playwrights, locations, and audiences, popular theatre flourished on the political and geographical peripheries. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book illuminates lost worlds of political conviviality, from anarchist communes and clandestine agit-prop drama to royalist street politics and right-wing mass spectacle. It reveals new connections between French initiatives and their European counterparts, and demonstrates the enduring strength of radical communities in shaping political ideals and engagement.

Jessica Wardhaugh is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, where she researches and teaches on French politics and culture. Her first monograph with Palgrave (2009) was a study of street politics in 1930s France. She has also edited books on Paris and the Right, and politics and the individual.

1. Introduction.- 2. Citizens of Utopia: Popular Theatre and the Republican State.- 3. Folk Art, Faith, and Nationalism: Popular Theatre in the Provinces.- 4. Beyond the Peuple Fid​èle: Catholic Theatre and the Masses.- 5. Anarchist Theatre in the Belle Époque: The Beauty of Revolt.- 6. The Art of Revolution, from Romain Rolland to Communist Agit-Prop.- 7. The Art of Counter-Revolution, from Royalist Satire to Fascist Mass Spectacle.- 8. Conclusion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.10.2017
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Zusatzinfo XVI, 357 p. 10 illus.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte Anarchist theatre • Breton plays • Catholic popular theatre • Commemoration of the First World War • Henri Ghéon • History of French popular theatre • Léon Chancerel • Pierre Corneille • Politics, theatre, and utopia • popular music • Romain Rolland • State education • Théâtre Civique • Théâtre d’Art Social • Théâtre de la Révolution • Theatre in the provinces • Théâtre National Populaire • The Belle Époque
ISBN-10 1-137-59855-7 / 1137598557
ISBN-13 978-1-137-59855-4 / 9781137598554
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