National Theatres in Context: France, Germany, England and Wales

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Investigates the drive to create a national theatre as an aspect of the cultural, social and political life of modern Wales. Efforts to establish a National Theatre are discussed as a struggle to define the national identity in a volatile world. This work focuses on how national theatre helps in creation of the modern European Welsh man or woman.

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Anwen Jones is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her research interests include French drama and theatre at the turn of the nineteenth century and theatre in Wales, with particular reference to the eighteenth century Welsh Anterliwt.