Medieval Roles for Modern Times

Theater and the Battle for the French Republic

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

Ranging from France to Russia to America in the throes of world war and revolution, Medieval Roles for Modern Times investigates how critics and creators made medieval culture a part of their modern world through theatrical role-playing. On both the Left and the Right across Europe, partisans used drama to express the ideological struggles dividing them. Helen Solterer explores the case of the Théophiliens, a Parisian youth group in the 1930s and 1940s whose members included Roland Barthes and Alain Resnais. The performances of the troupe—from the Adam Play to the Mystery of the Passion—captured the paradoxes of the French Republic as it was breaking apart. The book focuses on two key figures of the Théophilien troupe: founder Gustave Cohen and actor Moussa Abadi. Under Vichy, Cohen went into exile in America, while Abadi went underground. He established a network for refugee families and taught Jewish children role-playing skills to help them evade detection by the Gestapo. Abadi helped save hundreds of children from deportation, and his story of theater and Jewish resistance has never before been published.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-15
Mått:178 x 254 x 21 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271036137

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Teater inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Helen Solterer is Professor of French at Duke University. She is the author of The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (1995).

Recensioner i media

“Solterer’s fascinating book explores the power of the Middle Ages in the French imagination from the early twentieth century through two world wars. She does justice to the full complexity and contradictions of that power in an investigation that is supported by prodigious research and superb writing skills. This book shows how fascists, monarchists, and the Popular Front were all able to claim medieval spectacles as celebrations of their deeply incompatible views of the nation and the republic.”—Dorothy Kaufmann, Clark University

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsPrologue1.French Mysteries and Russian Miracles: Role-Playing, the Great War, and Bolshevik Revolution, 1905–19252.Gustave Cohen and the Drama of Belonging to France: Paris, 1933–19343.The Théophilien Troupe’s Coming of Age: Paris, 1935–19394.Theatrical Double Jeopardy: Paris, 1939–19445.La France Éternelle in American Exile: New York, 1941–19446.Moussa Abadi and Playing for Life: Nice, 1943–1944Epilogue Postwar Dramas: Paris, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, 1944–1952AcknowledgmentsIndex