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The Fascist Ceka
The Ceka—a centralized, repressive, criminal organization that already existed during the two-year “legalitarian” period (1922–1924)—reveals...
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During the Fascist Ventennio
In the months and years following the Matteotti murder, Mussolini put great effort into protecting the perpetrators and providing them with extensive...
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Seeking Music for the State: Anthems, Nations and Political Conflict
Official anthems formed a substantial part of the history of states in the modern era. As tools at the service of political parties and rulers...
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Introduction: The Praxis and Scope of Applied Shakespeare
This chapter introduces the reader to the praxis and scope of Applied Theatre as a performance practice. It draws upon theories and purposes relative...
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The Combat Veteran Players: A Case Study
This chapter aims to look specifically at the Combat Veteran Players’ (CVP) use of Shakespeare’s work within their own theatrical programme and how...
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The History of Prison Theatre
This chapter explores the history of theatre in prisons and the scope and expanse of applied work that uses the tools of theatre to engage the...
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Suggestions for Further Research
This chapter suggests areas for further reading, research, and investigation relative to the practice of Applied Theatre. The suggestions are...
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“The Secret Sin That One Commits by Thought Alone”: Confession as Private and Public in Seventeenth-Century France
Investigating the theological implications of confessions as private conversations, this chapter delves into the debate between the Jesuit Denis...
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Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeeks’ Krinke Kesmes (1708)
This chapter shows how reading a utopia from the perspective of social knowledge production can furnish new understanding of the practice of private...
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“Alone Amongst Ourselves”: How to Talk in Private According to the Cologne Diarist, Hermann von Weinsberg (1518–1597)
This chapter examines the diarist Hermann von Weinsberg’s descriptions of everyday conversations, which are incredibly revealing of the notions of...
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When Private Speech Goes Public: Libertinage, Crypto-Judaic Conversations, and the Private Literary World of Jean Fontanier 1621
This chapter explores the exceptional role of private conversations in the trial of Jean Fontanier, who stood accused of having written and taught...
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The History of Shakespeare and Disability Theatre
This chapter explores specific projects and/or performances that include the use of Shakespeare’s plays alongside Disabled communities. The projects...
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Shakespeare and Universalisation
This chapter argues how for centuries Shakespeare’s works have been an important source of inspiration for academics and practitioners alike, and...
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Shakespeare and Cultural Exclusion
This chapter acknowledges that whilst Shakespeare’s cultural influence is undeniable, there remain limitations to his work’s cultural influence. The...
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Shakespeare’s Criminals, Criminal Shakespeare: A Renaissance Reading of Shakespeare and the Criminal Mind in Macbeth
This chapter analyses what lessons Shakespeare’s depiction of the criminal mind may be able to provide to participants of applied theatre projects...
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Subverting a Universally and Culturally Biased Shakespeare
This chapter suggests that while Shakespeare’s cultural significance, educational value, and national heritage make a strong case for his inclusion...
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‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...
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Spain, Munich, Auschwitz: The Role of Historical Analogies in the Protest Movements in Europe Against the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 led to an important and multifaceted civil society mobilization throughout Europe. Historical...
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Davies, Eleanor
Eleanor Davies (née Touchet; later Douglas; also Audley) (1590–1652) believed herself to be a messenger from the biblical prophet Daniel following a...
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Dreams
Three questions arise about the relationship between dreams and memory. First, how reliably can we remember and report dreams? The privacy of dreams...