Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution By Yann Robert. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019; pp. viii + 331, 1 illustration. $79.95 cloth, $75.95 e-book.

Abstract

ideas and landmarks in theatre and political economy since the 1850s: nineteenthcentury industrialization, the waxing and waning postwar UK welfare state, Irish peace in the 1990s, North American border panics after 9/11, and austerity politics in the 2010s. In all of these frameworks, McKinnie sees and communicates clearly how the mechanics of theatremaking make political and economic meaning as much as, if not more than, the theatrical performance.