National Theatres in a Changing Europe

Author Preface Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.E.Wilmer PART 1: BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW The Development of National Theatres in Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; S.E.Wilmer National Theatres: Then and Now; M.Carlson The National Stage and the Naturalized House: (Trans)National Legitimation in Modern Europe; L.Kruger Towards a History of National Theatres in Europe; B.McConachie PART 2: FORMATION, FUNCTION, LANGUAGE ISSUES AND IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL A Window to the West: Russian Imperial Theatres; J.Listengarten The Abbey Opens: A First Night Revisited; B.Levitas The Development of Norway's National Theatres; K.Shepherd-Barr Justification as National Throughout Changing Times: The National Theatre of Finland; P.Koski Creating and Dismantling the National Theatre in Divided Belgium; F.Peeters National on Compulsion: The Moscow Art Theatre; L.Senelick Italy: The Fancy of a National Theatre?; P.Gaborik PART 3: NEW FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURES IN A CHANGING EUROPE Proliferation and Differentiation of National Theatres in France; D.Whitton A National Theatre Decentralized: Sweden's Three and a Half National Theatres; R.Hoogland & W.Sauter Aspects of National Theatres in Germany after 1945; T.Irmer The National Theatre and Civic Responsibility in the British Isles; M.Coveney Bulgarian National Theatre "Ivan Vazov": Traditionally Non-Traditional; K.Stefanova The Disappearing Balkans: National Theatres and Geopolitics; B.Susec-Michieli Inadequate Subsidyand a Market Economy in the Baltic Countries; E.Klivis PART 4: CHALLENGES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY National Theatres Undermined by the Withering of the Nation State; D.Klaic The Role of National Theatres in an Age of Globalization; J.Reinelt Select Bibliography Index