| Sex, Class, and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Sikes, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030231151 ISBN-13: 9783030231156 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Sports & Recreation - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Dewey: 790 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.03 lbs) 251 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history. The book includes discussions of sodomitical closet dramas from the decades surrounding the English Glorious Revolution of 1688; the performances of 'Tribades and Amazons', public women of the French Revolution; the 'homophilic elitism' in the early plays of Brecht and Hasenclever from the years just before and after the German Revolution that marked the founding of the short-lived Weimar Republic; and the utopian conception of a Soviet 'New Woman' set to take the stage after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Throughout, Sikes invokes the differences between past and present politicized performances in order to cast our own political imaginings into sharper and more critical relief.
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