Scenes from Bourgeois Life proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility, as characterized by the cultivation of distance. In author Nicholas Ridout's formulation, this distance is pro…
Beginning with Chekhov?s Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater?s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afr…
Beginning with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afr…
Beginning with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater's potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Ridout argues that theater in modern capitalism can help us think afr…
A rich, historically grounded exploration of why theater and performance matter in the modern world.