TY - BOOK ID - 101918640 TI - Theatre and autocracy in the ancient world AU - Csapo, Eric AU - Goette, Hans Rupprecht AU - Green, John Richard AU - Le Guen-Pollet, Brigitte AU - Paillard, Élodie AU - Stoop, Jelle AU - Wilson, Peter PY - 2022 SN - 9783110795967 PB - Berlin: De Gruyter, DB - UniCat KW - Theater KW - Dictatorship in literature KW - Political aspects KW - Théâtre KW - Despotisme KW - Théâtre politique grec. KW - Histoire. KW - Aspect politique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101918640 AB - Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre - rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy - serve their needs? Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control. ER -