Staged

A highly original book that confidently speaks to different audiences.

Auteur
Minou Arjomand is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Texte du rabat

Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American performances to reveal theater as a place for forms of judgment that are inadmissible in a courtroom but indispensable for public life. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful case for the importance of theaters as democratic institutions.

Contenu
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Show Trials and Political Theater

1. Hannah Arendt: Judging in Dark Times
2. Bertolt Brecht: Poetic Justice
3. Erwin Piscator: Theater After Auschwitz
4. Trials in Nuremberg
   Conclusion: Archives, Law, and Theater Today
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index