Theatre as a Prison of Longue Durée

by Henk Gras, Bennie Pratasik, Philip Hans Franses

For over a hundred years a wildly held assumption has ruled the debate on the social composition of theatre audiences. This assumption states that in the period from the late eighteenth century to the Great War (1773 -1914) theatre audience was largely elite, till the French Revolution chased them to opera. The drama performances were sought by petty bourgeois and unskilled labour force, till, in 1870, the re-conquest of the stage by the upper...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 363161635X
• ISBN13: 9783631616352
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 254 Pages