Alisa Zhulina
Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life
Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life
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In the era of market finance and socioeconomic changes, modern drama emerged as a powerful tool for critiquing art and life under capitalism. Playwrights like Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, and Gerhart Hauptmann explored economic concepts through their plays, questioning the morality and politics of the system they were a part of. Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life highlights the prescient visions of life in a new financial and societal reality in canonical plays and lesser-known works, urging us to reevaluate modern drama's relevance to contemporary economic and political concerns.
Format: Hardback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2024
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
In the vibrant era of market finance and sweeping socioeconomic transformations, modern drama emerged as a powerful platform for critiquing art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina delves into the works of fin-de-siècle playwrights, including Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, and Gerhart Hauptmann, who skillfully interrogated the meaning of this newly coined economic concept. These playwrights, acutely aware of their involvement in the system they aimed to challenge, portrayed economic issues as moral and political concerns, utilizing their plays to explore the theories of renowned economists such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels, as well as Max Weber.
The Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life unveils the foreboding and unsettling perspectives of life in a new financial and societal reality through now-canonical plays like A Doll's House, Miss Julie, and The Cherry Orchard, as well as lesser-known and long-overlooked works. This comprehensive study invites us to reexamine modern drama and its enduring significance in addressing the pressing economic and political challenges that persist in our contemporary world.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780810146358
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