The National Stage : Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America
The University of Chicago Press
The National StageTheatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France, and America\nAuthor(s): Loren Kruger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226454962, 978-0226454962\nSynopsis\nThe idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisisfrom the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to \""salvage democracy\"" in Depression AmericaKruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? \n\nThe National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between h.
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