Performing Arts · Theatre History & Traditions
A topic within Theatre History & Traditions, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
George Bernard Shaw
Reads Ibsen's plays as a sustained attack on idealism — the comfortable lies societies tell to sustain themselves — arguing his real subject is the conflict between individual will and social convention, which let his drama function as political intervention.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Romain Rolland
Argues that a theatre for the people must be built on new plays of joy, heroism and history rather than diluted classics, because the working audience needs a drama that strengthens rather than merely diverts it.
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