THEATRE AND CITIZENSHIP. The History of a Practice
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1 THEATRE AND CITIZENSHIP The History of a Practice Citizenship is a contested term which today inspires both policymakers and radical activists. traces this ideal to its classical roots, examining both theatre and citizenship as performative practices. Wiles shows how people function collectively rather than as individuals, for example through choruses or crowd behaviour in the auditorium. He explores historic tensions between the passivity of the spectator and the active engagement of a citizen, paying special attention to dramatists like Aristophanes, Machiavelli and Rousseau who have translated political theory into a theatre of and for active citizens. The book is a fresh investigation of familiar and less familiar landmarks of theatre history, revealing how plays function as social and political events. In this original approach to theatre history, Wiles argues that theatre is a powerful medium for building community, and that attempts to use it as a vehicle for education are very often misplaced. david wiles is Professor of Theatre at Royal Holloway University of London. He has published extensively in the fields of classical and Elizabethan theatre, and his Short History of Western Performance Space was published by Cambridge University Press in This is his ninth book, and previous books have been shortlisted for the Criticos, Society for Theatre Research and Runciman prizes. He was a contributor to the Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre (1995)andis currently, with Christine Dymkowski, editing The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History. The focus of his teaching and research has always been the relation of theatre to society, particularly in respect of festival, and the present book builds on the breadth of his intellectual interests. Its genesis lies in a keynote lecture which he was invited to give to the International Federation for Theatre Research at the University of Maryland in 2005.
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3 THEATRE AND CITIZENSHIP The History of a Practice DAVID WILES Royal Holloway University of London
4 cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: / This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2011 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Wiles, David. Theatre and citizenship : the history of a practice /. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn (hardback) 1. Theater and society. 2. Theater Political aspects. I. Title. pn1643.w dc isbn Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Information regarding prices, travel timetables, and other factual information given in this work is correct at the time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter.
5 Contents List of plates Acknowledgements page vii viii 1 Introduction: citizenship and theatre 1 2 Athens 22 Democracy and chorality The Frogs Plato and Aristotle 41 3 Florence, Rome and Machiavelli 48 Machiavelli s political works 48 Cicero 53 Terence s Andria The Mandrake and the Society of the Trowel The Sunflower in a politician s garden Coda: Goldoni, Ayckbourn and the comic genre From Coventry to London 78 Christian fraternity The Weavers pageant in Coventry Shakespeare, Heywood and London 91 John Milton and the revolution Geneva: Rousseau versus Voltaire 110 Geneva 110 Rousseau The Letter to d Alembert The battle for a public theatre 131 Conclusion: two ideals Paris and the French Revolution 148 Brutus and the active citizen audience 148 Tragedy as a school for citizens: the career of M.-J. Chénier 158 v
6 vi Contents The revolutionary festival 171 Diderot and bourgeois realism The people, the folk and the modern public sphere 187 Collectivism in pre-war Germany 187 The Indian People s Theatre Association In search of the public sphere Epilogue: Washington s monuments to citizenship 224 List of references 228 Index 254
7 Plates 1 The Death of Lucretia. Engraving by Le Lorrain after Jean-François de Troy. Royal Academy of Arts. page Les licteurs rapportent à Brutus les corps de ses fils. Painting by Jacques-Louis David. Louvre The crowning of Voltaire. Engraving from Révolutions de France et de Brabant no. 53. Bodleian Library Le Cardinal de Lorraine, bénissant les assassins de St. Barthélemy. Coloured engraving by Jean-Guillaume Moitte. Comédie Française Le triomphe du peuple français. Detail of a drawing by Jacques-Louis David. Musée Carnavalet Fête de l Être suprême au Champ de Mars (20 prairial an II 8juin1794). Painting by Pierre-Antoine Demachy. Musée Carnavalet Rehearsal photos of Vom Tauwind und der neuen Freude, choreographed by Rudolf von Laban, in the Dietrich-Eckart theatre, Berlin. Photos from the festival programme in the John Hodgson Archive, Brotherton library, University of Leeds. 195 vii
8 Acknowledgements CompletionofthisprojectwasmadepossiblebyagrantundertheAHRC Research Leave scheme. Tom Postlewait kindly refereed my application, and it is thanks to him that I first bent my thoughts to the citizen-artist. I am grateful to my colleagues in the Department of Drama and Theatre at RHUL for allowing me sabbatical leave, and for providing an intellectual environment that stimulates lateral thought. In particular, Helen Nicholson encouraged me to consider citizenship a topic relevant to practitioners today. My research students have kept pointing me to new lines of enquiry, and proved a welcome diversion from labour over the word-processor. I have spoken on citizenship at seminars or working groups in Athens, Delphi, Leeds, Lisbon, Maryland, Oxford, Plymouth and at RHUL, and I am appreciative of helpful discussions that ensued. N. P. Ashley, Jacky Bratton, Margret Convery, Zachary Dunbar, Helen Nicholson and Ellen Wiles have spared the time to give me feedback on draft chapters or sections. Dick McCaw got me interested in Laban and found the photos. Vicki Cooper at Cambridge University Press supported this project from its inception. Thanks finally to Gayna, without whose support I could not have written this book about public life. viii
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