Overview
- Focuses on four revolutionary eras in European history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
- Adopts intersectional analysis to examine what new insights historical analysis might offer to the politics of sex and class in our present day
- Includes a case study of Nell Gwyn, one of the most famous of the first generation of actresses to appear on the English stage
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History (PSTPH)
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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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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alan Sikes is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Louisiana State University, USA. He is the author of Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present: The Performing Subject (2007).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex, Class, and the Theatrical Archive
Book Subtitle: Erotic Economies
Authors: Alan Sikes
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23116-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23115-6Published: 01 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23118-7Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23116-3Published: 29 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 251
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts, Drama