Re: Readings needed on Marxist analyses of Theater

[Louis Proyect]

Steve Cohn wrote:

I teach a senior seminar on paradigm debates in economics and have a student
who is a double major in theater and econ who  wants to do a paper on
Marxist analyses of theater.  Can anyone suggest accessible things he could
read? Ideally they would illustrate the power of historical materialism (a
la stuff  I am a bit  familiar with on literary criticism) and offer some
linkages to more narrowly economic issues- such as the commodification of
entertainment by large multi-product corporations, etc.

Thanks--feel free to apply on or off list (Steve Cohn, [EMAIL PROTECTED])

1. Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary
2. Bertolt Brecht, On Theater
3. Robert S. Dombroski, "On Gramsci's Theater Criticism", Boundary 2, Vol. 14, No. 3, The Legacy of Antonio Gramsci. (Spring, 1986), pp. 91-119.
4. Randy Martin, Socialist ensembles: theater and state in Cuba and Nicaragua
5. Annette Rubinstein, The great tradition in English literature from Shakespeare to Shaw
6. Terry Eagleton, Shakespeare and society: critical studies in Shakespearean drama.


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