A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Politics and Drama
Aragay, Mireia, Paola Botham and José Ramón Prado-Pérez, eds. World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices. (Themes in Theatre, 11). Leiden: Brill / Rodopi, 2020.
https://brill.com/view/title/57109?language=en
2020
Castillo Algarra, Antonio. "Por un teatro público libre y plural." El Asterisco 20 Sept. 2019.*
https://www.elasterisco.es/teatro-publico-libre-y-plural/
2019
Anderson, Thomas P. Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics. (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy). Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016.
Ansorge, Peter. "6. 'Stopping for Lunch': the Political Theatre of David Hare." In The Cambridge Companion to David Hare. Ed. Richard Boon. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007. 92-106.*
Antón-Pacheco, Ana. "Words Like Weapons: The American Political Theatre of the 1930's." Atlantis 4.1-2 (1982).
Auslander, Philip. "Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre." Theatre Journal 39.1 (March 1987).
Benjamin, Walter. (What Is Epic Theater?) Mass und Wert (1939).
_____. "What is Epic Theater?" In Benjamin, Illuminations New York: Schocken, 1969. 147-54.*
Bevington, David. Tudor Drama and Politics: A Critical Approach to Topical Meaning. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1968.
Boal, Augusto. Theatre of the Oppressed. London: Pluto Press, 1979.
Bond, Edward. The Hidden Plot: Notes on Theatre and the State. London: Methuen, 2000.
Botham, Paola. "From Deconstruction to Reconstruction: A Habermasian Framework for Contemporary Political Theatre." Contemporary Theatre Review 18.3 (2008): 307-17.
Bushnell, R. W. Tragedies of Tyrants: Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1990.
Case, Sue-Ellen, and Janelle Reinelt, eds. The Performance of Power: Theatrical Discourse and Politics. U of Iowa P, 1991.
Cavanagh, Dermot. Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play. (Early Modern Literature in History). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. (Bale, Norton, Sackville, Greene, Shakespeare).
Colaiacomo, Paola. "Il teatro del principe." Calibano 4 (1979): 53-98. (Drama and absolutism).
D'Monté, Rebecca, and Graham Saunders, eds. Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
González Fernández de Sevilla, José Manuel. "Political Strategies of Drama in Renaissance England." Actas del I Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses (SEDERI) / Proceedings of the I National Conference of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies. Ed. Javier Sánchez. Zaragoza: SEDERI, 1990. 95-104.*
Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Heinemann, Margot. "5. Political Drama." In The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. Ed. A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 164-96.*
Holderness, Graham, ed. The Politics of Theatre and Drama. Basingstoke, 1992.
Itzin, Catherine. Stages in the Revolution: Political Theatre in Britain since 1968. London: Eyre Methuen, 1980.
Kershaw, Baz. The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention. London: Routledge, 1992.
Kritzer, Amelia H. Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain, 1995-2005. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Lane, David. "Chapter 2: Verbatim Theatre—The Rise of a Political Voice." In Lane, Contemporary British Drama. Edinburgh UP, 2010. 58-81.*
Lauer, A. Robert. Tyrannicide and Drama. (Archivum Calderonianum, 0721-0442, 4). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1987.
Limon, Jerzy. Dangerous Matter: English Drama and Politics 1623-1624. 1986.
Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1988.*
Munns, Jessica. "Theatrical Culture 1: Politics and Theatre." In The Cambridge Companion to English Literature 1650-1740. Ed. Steven N. Zwicker. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 82-103.*
Murphy, Brenda. Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthysm on Stage, Film, and Television. 1999.
Nightingale, Benedict. "Harold Pinter / Politics." In Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama. Ed. Enoch Brater and Ruby Cohn. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1990. 129-54.*
Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theatre in the English Renaissance. Berkeley: U of California P, 1975.
Pechter, Edward. "The New Historicism and Its Discontents: Politicizing Renaissance Drama." PMLA 102 (1987): 292-303.*
Pérez de Ayala, Ramón. "La comedia política." In Las máscaras. Essays on drama. 4th ed. In Obras selectas de Ramón Pérez de Ayala. Barcelona: AHR, 1957. 1448-54.*
Piscator, Erwin. Political Theatre. French trans. 1962.
Reinelt, Janette. "'Politics, Playwriting, Postmodernism': An Interview with David Edgar." Contemporary Theatre Review 14.4 (2004): 42-53.
Roche, Anthony. Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics. 2010.
Schwanecke, Christine. "5. The Containment of Different Narratives and of Narratives of Difference in Drama: The Renewal and Self-Definition of a 'Sleeping' Genre as well as Theatrical Configurations of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century (Drama) Cultures." In Schwanecke, A Narratology of Drama. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. 148-98.* (Dryden's Marriage à la Mode, Behn's The Rover, Gay's The Beggar's Opera; politics and drama).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724110
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110724110/html
2022
______. "6. From Stage to Page, from the Publicly Politic to the Metaphysically Private: Late Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Drama as a Genre in Transformation, Dramatising Diegetic Storytelling and Narrativising (Revolutionary) Change in Society and Conflict in Selves." A Narratology of Drama. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. 199-253.* (Richard Cumberland, The West Indian; Joanna Baillie, Orra; Byron, Manfred; Revolt).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724110
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110724110/html
2022
_____. "7. Expanding the Allowances of Drama by Generic Encounters with Narrative in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Plays: Intersecting Drama and Narrative as Means to Fight against Hypocritical Hegemonies as well as to Perform and Forestall Political Change." A Narratology of Drama. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2022. 254-303.* (Shaw, Mrs Warren's Profession, Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, How the Vote Was Won, J. M. Barrie, Mary Rose, politics of drama).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110724110
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110724110/html
2022
"Select Bibliography." In The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge. Ed. P. J. Mathews. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 185-90.*
Sibony, Daniel. "4. Politique et désir: Jules César." In Sibony, Avec Shakespeare. 1988. Paris: Seuil, 2003. 331-62.*
Sierz, Aleks. "Can Old Forms Be Reinvigorated? Radical Populism and New Writing in British Theatre Today." Contemporary Theatre Review 16.3 (2006): 301-11.
Соколянский, Марк. "Политическая экстраваганца как драматический жанр (по пьесам Бернарда Шоу)." In «Меры не знал я, смертных любя»: к 90-летию российского филолога Владимира Серафимовича Вахрушева (1932—2011). Редакторы-составители Людмила Комуцци и Павел Глушаков. Санкт-Петербург: Росток, 2022. 356-68.* ("Political extravaganza as a dramatic genre (based on the plays of Bernard Shaw).")
Watson, D. G. Shakespeare's Early History Plays: Politics at Play on the Elizabethan Stage. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.
Williams, Raymond. "Tragedy and Revolution." In Williams, Modern Tragedy. London: Chatto and Windus, 1966.
Williams, Roy. "What Kind of England Do We Want?" New Theatre Quarterly 22.2 (2006): 113-21.
Video
Hamidi-Kim, Bérénice. "Théâtre, savoir, politique." Video lecture. YouTube (CRAL – Centre de Recherches sur les arts et le langage) 5 dec. 2014.*
2014
