Performing Power: The Political Secrets of Gustav III (1771-1792) - Image 1

£136.11

Routledge Performing Power: The Political Secrets of Gustav III (1771-1792)

Name: Performing Power: The Political Secrets of Gustav III (1771-1792)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 136.11 GBP
Availability: InStock

History & Criticism

Same price for 6 weeks. Today is much like next week.

£136 for 43 days straight · last change was Jan 2026

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 636 days • 636 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 636 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £128 (271 days, 42.6%)

Price range: £98 - £137

Price levels: 7 different prices over 636 days

Description

Performing Power explores 18th-century fabrication of the royal image by focusing on the example of King Gustav III (1746–1792) – one of Sweden’s most acclaimed and controversial monarchs – who conspicuously chose theater as the primary media for his image-making and role construction.The text postulates that Gustav III was motivated by theater’s ability to aid him in fulfilling Enlightenment’s tenet of broadly educating the populace and inculcating it with royal ideology. That he was an amateur actor, stage director, and playwright were other engines driving his choice. The project challenges and expands the commonly accepted perception of Gustav III’s contribution to Swedish theater, which has generally been limited to founding its National Opera, developing its national drama, and forming its national dramatic repertoire. Maria Berlova presents Gustav III as a performing King who strategically used political events as a framework through which he could embody the image of the ideal or enlightened monarch as presented by Voltaire. Through this, Performing Power explores the tight relationship and complex bond between theatrical arts and politics. This unique study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater studies, 18th-century culture, and politics. About the Author Maria Berlova holds two PhDs from GITIS and Stockholm University. She works as Senior Research Fellow at the State Institute of Art Studies (SIAS, Moscow). In 2018, Berlova published her book Theater of the King: Gustav III and the Formation of the Swedish National Stage in Russian.Michael Kroetch holds a BA degree in Literature from the University of Oregon. His fiction has appeared in literary journals. His theater plays have been performed throughout the Pacific Northwest, Off-Broadway in New York City, and in Berlin, Germany. He received a fellowship from the NEA.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367565560
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Theatre > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 April 2021
Listed Since: 31 October 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Performing Power: The Political Secrets of Gustav III (1771-1792)

Same price for 6 weeks. Today is much like next week.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin (Performance Works)

Character Sketch: A Drawing Course for Costume Designers

European Performative Theatre: The issues, problems and techniques of crucial masterpieces

What is Scenography?

Performing Antagonism: Theatre, Performance & Radical Democracy (Performance Philosophy)

Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform: 151 (Eastman Studies in Music)

Russians in Britain: British Theatre and the Russian Tradition of Actor Training

Performing Policy: How Contemporary Politics and Cultural Programs Redefined U.S. Artists for the Twenty-First Century

Studying Shakespeare in Performance

Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere (Avant-Gardes in Performance)

Visualising Protestant Monarchy: Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution (1689-1714): 38 (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: v. 2: 002

Transnational Connections in Early Modern Theatre (Manchester University Press)

The Theatrical Professoriate: Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas

A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations: Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Performance Arts: Research in the Age of Digital Revolution: 4 (Digital Culture and Humanities, 4)

Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances)

Gathering Force: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1623: Volume 1

Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean

Reframing the Musical: Race, Culture and Identity

The Great Festival: A Theoretical Performance Narrative of Antiquity’s Feasts and the Modern Rock Festival

Routledge Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader - Performance Book

Contemporary Women Stage Directors: Conversations on Craft (Theatre Makers)

Performing Statecraft: The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens, and States (Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances)