This book explores how electrification shaped cultural views of electricity through performance in the theater, highlighting the intersection of technology and aesthetics.
Ulf Otto’s The Theater of Electricity theorizes the nineteenth century’s “theater of electricity,” an “aesthetic regime” through which electrification changed theatre and shaped cultural views of electricity through performance. Replete with archival evidence, this book’s complexity may frustrate some readers, yet it successfully links histories of theatre, technology, and modernism.
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