Fascism and theatre : comparative studies on the aesthetics and politics of performance in Europe, 1925-1945 / edited by Günter Berghaus.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-298) and index.

Staging the nation's rebirth: the politics and aesthetics of performance in the context of fascist studies / Roger Griffin -- The Cultural politics of fascist governments / Reinhard Kühnl -- The Ritual core of fascist theatre: an anthropological perspective / Günter Berghaus -- The Theatre of politics in fascist Italy / Emilio Gentile -- The Organisation, fascistisation and management of theatre in Italy, 1925-1943 / Doug Thompson -- Theatre politics of the Mussolini régime and their influence on fascist drama / Pietro Cavallo -- Mussolini's 'theatre of the masses' / Mario Verdone -- Censorship in Nazi Germany: the influence of the Reich's Ministry of Propaganda on German theatre and drama, 1933-45 / Barbara Panse -- The Municipal theatre in Frankfurt-on-the-Main: the Nuremberg party rallies of the NSDAP / Hans-Ulrich Thamer -- The Theatre aesthetics of the falange / Sultana Wahnón -- Theatre and falangism at the beginning of the Franco régime / Francisco Linares -- Competing together in fascist Europe: sport in early Francoism / John London -- Jacques Copeau and 'popular theatre' in Vichy France / Serge Added -- Towards an aesthetic of fascist opera / Erik Levi.