Theatres of War - French Committed Theatre From the Second World War to the Cold War

Informationen zum Autor Ted Freeman is Senior Lecturer in French! University of Bristol. He is the author and editor of many books. Klappentext During the period 1944-1955! French authors such as Sartre! de Beauvoir! and Camus! along with other lesser-known dramatists! responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre. Addressing the ideological! political! and moral issues arising from World War II! the Cold War! and a series of disastrous colonial wars! these plays had considerable contemporary significance! but are virtually unknown today. Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to this genre of theatre and includes a chapter on the Rosenberg affair and the issue of anti-Semitism in the United States and Eastern Europe. Zusammenfassung Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern France from 1944 to the mid-1950s. During this crucial decade! authors responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre.

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• Authors: E. Freeman, Ted Freeman
• Assisted by: E. Freeman (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Exeter Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1998
• EAN: 9780859895590
• ISBN: 978-0-85989-559-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry