[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Viva la Revolution!

[Donald Boozer]

Drama as a form of revolution is examined in this week's posting from=
 the Literature Department at Cleveland Public Library.=20
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main =
Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
. Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to res=
erve any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, c=
all 216-623-2881, or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94


All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater.
Benjamin Bennett.
Cornell University Press, 2005.
(PN2039 .B455 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0801443091
(Link includes a summary and table of contents)
[This] "is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (=
and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as i=
ts own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to different=
iate drama from other forms of writing do not resemble the criteria b=
y which types of prose or verse are ordinarily distinguished...Bennet=
t looks at the relationship between literature and drama, identifying=
 typical problems in the development of dramatic literature and explo=
ring how the uncomfortable association with theatrical performance af=
fects the operation of drama in literary history." -- from the book j=
acket.


Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution.
Susan Maslan.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
(PN2633 .M37 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0801881250
(Link includes a summary and table of contents)
"Susan Maslan shows how theater played a pivotal role in Revolutionar=
y France, positioning the theatrical stage as a battleground on which=
 the people of Paris and the government fought for control of the Rev=
olution...Maslan's erudite analysis reveals the rich and powerful imp=
act of theater on France's fledgling democracy." -- from the book jac=
ket

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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
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