Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama

Puts modernist theatre in conversation with new materialist, posthumanist philosophy Establishes a dialogue between new materialism, the biopolitical turn, affect theory, and theatreProvides close readings of key dramatic texts as entry points into a cartography of four related spatiotemporal locations across Europe – Scandinavia, Germany and France in 1889, 1918, 1935 and 1943 – leading up to and contemporaneous with European fascismEstablishes a conversation between generations of cultural the