Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life

Join scholars Rebecca Kastleman, Bruce Robbins, and Alisa Zhulina for a book talk and discussion of Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life, Zhulina’s new book that traces how modern drama enacts vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Zhulina shows how fin-de-siècle playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, and Gerhart Hauptmann interrogate the meaning of “capitalism” and use their works to explore the theories of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Max Weber, and others within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.