Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment by Minou Arjomand

Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment

Minou Arjomand

248 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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Theater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term "show trials" suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by r...

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