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Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985): Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America

Routledge Revivals: Theatres of the Left 1880-1935 (1985): Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America

Samuel, Raphael
MacColl, Ewan
Cosgrove, Stuart

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals: History Workshop

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 1138214469
ISBN13: 9781138214460
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2018
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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