TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henk Gras
AU  - Philip Hans Franses
AU  - Harry van Vliet
AU  - Bennie Pratasik
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Theatre as a Prison of Longue Durée
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108093
N2  - For over a hundred years a wildly held assumption has ruled the debate on the social composition of theatre audiences. This assumption states that in the period from the late eighteenth century to the Great War (1773 -1914) theatre audience was largely elite, till the French Revolution chased them to opera. The drama performances were sought by petty bourgeois and unskilled labour force, till, in 1870, the re-conquest of the stage by the upper bourgeoisie set in. In this study for the first time a large empirical research is presented to test this ‘master narrative’. Based on thorough archival research from the past twenty years, combined with robust statistical analysis, the conclusion with respect to this still dominant narrative can be short: it is to be fully rejected.
KW  - historiography, Netherlands, time series analysis, Rotterdam Theatre
LA  - English
ER  -