Eighteenth-century theatrical war plays and the experience of war
- Author
- Kornee van der Haven (UGent)
- Organization
- Abstract
- In my paper I will discuss ‘war plays’ as they were presented on the 18th-century stage in relation to the question how the identification of the audience with ‘the military’ was realized or prohibited by means of theatricality. Masquerade-like spectacles like the great military camps, invited the public to imagine itself being a soldier, adopting military appearance and wearing the same uniforms as the soldiers during their maneuvers. Also the military spectacles performed on stage in the first half of the century until the late 1770-ies provided a ‘realistic’ experience of war spectacle. On the other hand it was also by way of theatrical performances that the audience was enabled to critically reflect on this masquerade-like adoption of a ‘military self’ and to envision imitated military behavior as artificial, childish and ‘unreal’. How then did war acts as a commercial spectacular theatrical event relate to the aim to get a better insight, not only in the play of war but also in the internal perspective of the solider, his feelings, fears and doubts? Which tensions between and within theatre texts occur where war acts are presented as playful experiences?
- Keywords
- Play, War, Literature, Theatre, 18th Century
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4095442
- MLA
- van der Haven, Kornee. “Eighteenth-Century Theatrical War Plays and the Experience of War.” Play in the Eighteenth Century : The Eighteenth Century in Play, The Workshop, edited by Rebecca Spang, vol. 1, Indiana University, 2012, pp. 128–32.
- APA
- van der Haven, K. (2012). Eighteenth-century theatrical war plays and the experience of war. In R. Spang (Ed.), Play in the Eighteenth Century : the Eighteenth Century in Play, The Workshop (Vol. 1, pp. 128–132). Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University.
- Chicago author-date
- Haven, Kornee van der. 2012. “Eighteenth-Century Theatrical War Plays and the Experience of War.” In Play in the Eighteenth Century : The Eighteenth Century in Play, The Workshop, edited by Rebecca Spang, 1:128–32. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University.
- Chicago author-date (all authors)
- van der Haven, Kornee. 2012. “Eighteenth-Century Theatrical War Plays and the Experience of War.” In Play in the Eighteenth Century : The Eighteenth Century in Play, The Workshop, ed by. Rebecca Spang, 1:128–132. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University.
- Vancouver
- 1.van der Haven K. Eighteenth-century theatrical war plays and the experience of war. In: Spang R, editor. Play in the Eighteenth Century : the Eighteenth Century in Play, The Workshop. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University; 2012. p. 128–32.
- IEEE
- [1]K. van der Haven, “Eighteenth-century theatrical war plays and the experience of war,” in Play in the Eighteenth Century : the Eighteenth Century in Play, The Workshop, Bloomington, Indiana, 2012, vol. 1, pp. 128–132.
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abstract = {{In my paper I will discuss ‘war plays’ as they were presented on the 18th-century stage in relation to the question how the identification of the audience with ‘the military’ was realized or prohibited by means of theatricality. Masquerade-like spectacles like the great military camps, invited the public to imagine itself being a soldier, adopting military appearance and wearing the same uniforms as the soldiers during their maneuvers. Also the military spectacles performed on stage in the first half of the century until the late 1770-ies provided a ‘realistic’ experience of war spectacle. On the other hand it was also by way of theatrical performances that the audience was enabled to critically reflect on this masquerade-like adoption of a ‘military self’ and to envision imitated military behavior as artificial, childish and ‘unreal’. How then did war acts as a commercial spectacular theatrical event relate to the aim to get a better insight, not only in the play of war but also in the internal perspective of the solider, his feelings, fears and doubts? Which tensions between and within theatre texts occur where war acts are presented as playful experiences?}},
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title = {{Eighteenth-century theatrical war plays and the experience of war}},
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