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Author: Joel Schechter
Publisher: University of Exeter
Imprint: University of Exeter
ISBN: 9780859893350
ISBN 10: 0859893359
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 30 April 2018
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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`Not every book about the eighteenth-century theatre alludes to Chelsea Manning, Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders, or concludes with a chronology that jumps from 1763 ( James Boswell visits Newgate Prison ) to 1928 ( Brecht and others adapt Gay's The Beggar's Opera ). Eighteenth-century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole makes these contemporary references and goes further: it is introduced by the theatre historian Peter Thomson as a bid to jolt the anglophone theatre out of its political doziness , and by its author Joel Schechter as a mapping of paths to future satire and activism, through a survey of earlier routes explored by Brecht and his precursors in England . [ ] there is much here to prompt further investigation, not least for any post-Brechtian producers who happen to open the book.' Michael Caines, The Times Literary Supplement, October 2016 `It is very jauntily written, as might well be expected from this author, and his enthusiasm for his subject matter is at times infectious.' Michael Wilson, Professor of Drama, Loughborough University `This is a book like no other. Schechter delights in liberating his own fantasy, in allowing his imagination free play in interpreting, not only what was, but also what might have been and what, with the right incentives, might be.' `This new book has been written as a challenge to the twenty-first century, a bid to jolt the Anglophone theatre out of its political doziness. Peter Thomson, Emeritus Professor of Drama, University of Exeter `This is an intelligent, radical book, intriguing from the start and relentlessly imaginative. Always accessible and affable in style.' Graham Ley, Professor of Drama and Theory, University of Exeter
`Not every book about the eighteenth-century theatre alludes to Chelsea Manning, Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders, or concludes with a chronology that jumps from 1763 ( James Boswell visits Newgate Prison ) to 1928 ( Brecht and others adapt Gay's The Beggar's Opera ). Eighteenth-century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole makes these contemporary references and goes further: it is introduced by the theatre historian Peter Thomson as a bid to jolt the anglophone theatre out of its political doziness , and by its author Joel Schechter as a mapping of paths to future satire and activism, through a survey of earlier routes explored by Brecht and his precursors in England . [ ] there is much here to prompt further investigation, not least for any post-Brechtian producers who happen to open the book.' Michael Caines, The Times Literary Supplement, October 2016 `It is very jauntily written, as might well be expected from this author, and his enthusiasm for his subject matter is at times infectious.' Michael Wilson, Professor of Drama, Loughborough University `This is a book like no other. Schechter delights in liberating his own fantasy, in allowing his imagination free play in interpreting, not only what was, but also what might have been and what, with the right incentives, might be.' `This new book has been written as a challenge to the twenty-first century, a bid to jolt the Anglophone theatre out of its political doziness. Peter Thomson, Emeritus Professor of Drama, University of Exeter `This is an intelligent, radical book, intriguing from the start and relentlessly imaginative. Always accessible and affable in style.' Graham Ley, Professor of Drama and Theory, University of Exeter
-Not every book about the eighteenth-century theatre alludes to Chelsea Manning, Occupy Wall Street and Bernie Sanders or concludes with a chronology that jumps from 1763 (James Boswell visits Newgate prison') to 1928 (Brecht and others adapt Gay's The Beggars Opera). Schechter makes these contemporary references and goes further. There is much here to prompt further investigation.---Michael Caines -Times Literary Supplement -
Author Information
Joel Schechter is Professor of Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University. He is famous as a writer about clowns, jesters, satirists and their radical politics. Much of his work has been focused on contemporary global mayhem. He was previously Professor of Dramatic Literature at Yale School of Drama, lecturer in Performance Studies at New York University and the New School for Social Research. He was Editor in Chief of the Yale journal Theater from 1977-92.
