TY - BOOK AU - Holdsworth,Nadine TI - Theatre & nation T2 - Theatre& SN - 9780230218710 (pbk.) AV - PN2042 H55 2010 U1 - 306.4/84 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Basingstoke, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Drama KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics in literature KW - National characteristics in the theater KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Theater and society KW - Theater and state KW - Theater KW - Political aspects N1 - P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index; Nation, national identity and nationalism -- National theatres and state-of-the nation plays -- Nations under duress -- National iconography -- Cosmopolitanism : beyond the nation N2 - "Throughout the history of the nation-state, theatre has contributed to the construction and reappraisal of the nation and national identities. This book argues that ideas of the nation are constantly in flux and explores the way theatre engages with such changes according to different geographical, political, economic, social and cultural climates"-- ER -