Benoit, Richard Peter
A Hegemonic Analysis of John Howard Lawson and the New Playrights Theatre
Ph.D. Dissertation
Kent State, Ohio: Kent State University, 2001, 266 p.
«The concept of hegemony was first developed by Antonio Gramsci and recorded in his "Prison Notebooks"... Gramsci's ideas concerning hegemony involve positioning the relationship between political society (...the "State") and civil, or "private" society as a hegemonic relationship in which predominance depends on the ratio between control and the willingness to be controlled. Using hegemony as an analytic strategy, the early theatrical career of John Howard Lawson as a playright and founding member of the New Playrights Theatre can be viewed through multiple hegemonic relationships.... Chapter 1 of this dissertation places Gramsci's concept of hegemony into three categories: (1) Hegemony explains social order. It is not just a revolutionary strategy. (2) In Capitalist societies, hegemony encapsulates a "war of position," and not a "war of movement." (3) Hegemony describes a sequence of subaltern coalitions that can either support or be directed against official (State) socio-cultural hegemony».
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Benoit, Richard Peter |
| Subjects |
Teatro
Lawson, John Howard Egemonia
theater
Lawson, John Howard Hegemony |
