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At the beginning of the new millennium, with an ever-changing world, no topic in theatre studies is as vital or as controversial and complex as is the writing of national theatre histories. In thirteen stimulating chapters, experts from disparate and often fragmented countries contemplate possible strategies for this task and, equally important, provide us with historiographical insights and superb overviews of many nations' theatre histories, thus creating a fascinating history of national theatre histories. --Don B. Wilmeth, co-editor, The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Treating large and small, established and emergent, capitalist and socialist nations and national theatre traditions, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories provides at once a cogent overview of the place of nationalism in contemporary theatre studies and a succinct introduction to the problematic idea of a 'national theatre' in the current millennium. --W. B. Worthen, University of California, Berkeley At the beginning of the new millennium, with an ever-changing world, no topic in theatre studies is as vital or as controversial and complex as is the writing of national theatre histories. In thirteen stimulating chapters, experts from disparate and often fragmented countries contemplate possible strategies for this task and, equally important, provide us with historiographical insights and superb overviews of many nations' theatre histories, thus creating a fascinating history of national theatre histories. --Don B. Wilmeth, co-editor, The Cambridge History of American Theatre Treating large and small, established and emergent, capitalist and socialist nations and national theatre traditions, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories provides at once a cogent overview of the place of nationalism in contemporary theatre studies and a succinct introduction to the problematic idea of a 'national theatre' in the current millennium. --W. B. Worthen, University of California, Berkeley At the beginning of the new millennium, with an ever-changing world, no topic in theatre studies is as vital or as controversial and complex as is the writing of national theatre histories. In thirteen stimulating chapters, experts from disparate and often fragmented countries contemplate possible strategies for this task and, equally important, provide us with historiographical insights and superb overviews of many nations' theatre histories, thus creating a fascinating history of national theatre histories. --Don B. Wilmeth, co-editor, The Cambridge History of American Theatre

Treating large and small, established and emergent, capitalist and socialist nations and national theatre traditions, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories provides at once a cogent overview of the place of nationalism in contemporary theatre studies and a succinct introduction to the problematic idea of a 'national theatre' in the current millennium. --W. B. Worthen, University of California, Berkeley At the beginning of the new millennium, with an ever-changing world, no topic in theatre studies is as vital or as controversial and complex as is the writing of national theatre histories. In thirteen stimulating chapters, experts from disparate and often fragmented countries contemplate possible strategies for this task and, equally important, provide us with historiographical insights and superb overviews of many nations' theatre histories, thus creating a fascinating history of national theatre histories. --Don B. Wilmeth, co-editor, The Cambridge History of American Theatre At the beginning of the new millennium, with an ever-changing world, no topic in theatre studies is as vital or as controversial and complex as is the writing of national theatre histories. In thirteen stimulating chapters, experts from disparate and often fragmented countries contemplate possible strategies for this task and, equally important, provide us with historiographical insights and superb overviews of many nations' theatre histories, thus creating a fascinating history of national theatre histories. --Don B. Wilmeth, co-editor, The Cambridge History of American Theatre Treating large and small, established and emergent, capitalist and socialist nations and national theatre traditions, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories provides at once a cogent overview of the place of nationalism in contemporary theatre studies and a succinct introduction to the problematic idea of a 'national theatre' in the current millennium. --W. B. Worthen, University of California, Berkeley

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S. E. Wilmer is a senior lecturer at the School of Drama at Trinity College, Dublin. His books include Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities. He is also a playwright, and his plays have been performed in such venues as the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Lincoln Center.

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