Theatre as a Prison of Longue Durée

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  • ISBN 9783631616352
  • Weight: 440g
  • Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Aug 2011
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • Publication City/Country: CH
  • Product Form: Hardback
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For over a hundred years a wildly held assumption has ruled the debate on the social composition of theatre audiences. This assumption states that in the period from the late eighteenth century to the Great War (1773 -1914) theatre audience was largely elite, till the French Revolution chased them to opera. The drama performances were sought by petty bourgeois and unskilled labour force, till, in 1870, the re-conquest of the stage by the upper bourgeoisie set in. In this study for the first time a large empirical research is presented to test this ‘master narrative’. Based on thorough archival research from the past twenty years, combined with robust statistical analysis, the conclusion with respect to this still dominant narrative can be short: it is to be fully rejected.
Henk Gras, historian at the Research Institute of History and Culture University of Utrecht.
Philip Hans Franses, professor at the Economic Institute, and Department of Marketing and Organization, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Harry van Vliet, professor of crossmedia at the University of Applied Science Utrecht.
Bennie Pratasik (†), research assistance, former PhD researcher at the University Utrecht.

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