When Harley Granville Barker was invited to stage a theatre season in New York following the outbreak of the First World War, senior figures within British politics seized on it as an opportunity to promote the British war effort in the United States. It was, however, Barker's impromptu decision to extend his stay and tour Euripides’ The Trojan Women to major colleges on the East Coast that saw him come close to realizing this goal. Through an examination of the production, the discourse that surrounded it, and the changing diplomatic relations between Britain and the USA, Philippa Burt explores in this article the extent to which Barker used Euripides as a propaganda tool through which to engage and educate the largely isolationist North American public. At the same time, she argues that Barker challenged the propaganda machine by refusing to perpetuate the dominant nationalistic and xenophobic narratives and, instead, intended a condemnation of all war. Philippa Burt is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her previous publications include numerous articles and a chapter on Barker's work with choruses in the forthcoming The Great European Stage Directors, Vol. 4: Reinhardt, Jessner, Barker (Bloomsbury Methuen).

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从西线到东海岸：巴克的美国特洛伊妇女

第一次世界大战爆发后，当哈雷·格兰维尔·巴克 (Harley Granville Barker) 受邀在纽约上演戏剧季时，英国政界的高级人物抓住了这个机会，在美国宣传英国的战争努力。然而，巴克临时决定延长逗留时间并游览欧里庇得斯特洛伊妇女到东海岸的主要大学，看到他接近实现这一目标。通过对作品、围绕它的话语以及英国和美国之间不断变化的外交关系的考察，菲利帕·伯特在本文中探讨了巴克在多大程度上使用欧里庇得斯作为宣传工具来吸引和教育很大程度上孤立主义者北美公众。与此同时，她认为巴克挑战宣传机器，拒绝延续占主导地位的民族主义和仇外叙事，而是打算谴责所有战争。Philippa Burt 是伦敦大学金史密斯学院戏剧与表演系的讲师。她以前的出版物包括许多文章和一章关于巴克在即将出版的合唱作品中的作品伟大的欧洲舞台导演，卷。4：莱因哈特、杰斯纳、巴克（布卢姆斯伯里梅休恩）。