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This introductory chapter addresses key critical terms as well as the book’s structure, which extends over three parts addressing ideological, infrastructural and aesthetic contexts of dramaturgical theory and practice. Building on seminal studies by Luckhurst (Dramaturgy: A revolution in theatre, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006) and Turner and Behrndt (Dramaturgy and performance, Palgrave, London, 2007) as well as responding to the recent institutional turn in Theatre and Performance Studies, the book features contributions that address dramaturgy as a politicised institutional practice leading up to, during and immediately after World War II.
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Panel discussion with Myah Jeffers, Anthony Simpson-Pike and Anna Himali Howard Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre on 20 February 2020.
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Friedrich II. was king of Prussia between 1740 and 1786. Clausewitz particularly referred to Friedrich’s military successes during the Silesian wars.
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The term was no Nazi invention but was first used in the early 1860s in calls for German unity. After 1871 it was incorporated into an increasingly aggressive foreign policy which sought to establish German leadership on the European continent as well as justify Germany’s colonial ambitions.
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Simke, AC., Heinrich, A. (2024). Introduction: Dramaturgies of War. In: Heinrich, A., Simke, AC. (eds) Dramaturgies of War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39318-1_1
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