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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483453803321

Autore

Sikes Alan

Titolo

Sex, Class, and the Theatrical Archive : Erotic Economies / / by Alan Sikes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-23116-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Disciplina

792.09

808.82

Soggetti

Theater—History

Performing arts

Drama

Theatre History

Performing Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: The Sodomite in the Closet Drama: Pamphlets and Performance in the Era of the Glorious Revolution -- Chapter Three: Tribades and Amazons: Playacting Women of the French Revolution -- Chapter Four: Expressionist Brotherhoods: Homophilic Elitism and the Drama of the Weimar Era -- Chapter 5: Conclusion: Socialized Maternity and Other Utopian Notions.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .