TY - JOUR KW - Marinetti KW - Mascagni KW - Pirandello KW - fascism KW - Soft power KW - theatre infrastructures KW - theatre networks AU - Matteo Paoletti AB - This article explores the role of theatre in the strategies of cultural diplomacy that developed in Italy between the last years of the liberal state (1919-22) and the rise of Benito Mussolini. It covers the period until 1927, when the establishment of the Istituti Italiani di Cultura (Italian Cultural Institutes) and the approval of a new regulatory framework for migration marked a new era for fascist soft-power ambitions. BT - New Theatre Quarterly DA - aug DO - 10.1017/S0266464X22000148 M1 - 3 N2 - This article explores the role of theatre in the strategies of cultural diplomacy that developed in Italy between the last years of the liberal state (1919-22) and the rise of Benito Mussolini. It covers the period until 1927, when the establishment of the Istituti Italiani di Cultura (Italian Cultural Institutes) and the approval of a new regulatory framework for migration marked a new era for fascist soft-power ambitions. PY - 2022 SP - 201 EP - 221 T2 - New Theatre Quarterly TI - A Single Purpose: The Conquest of the Foreign Art Markets : Theatre and Cultural Diplomacy in Mussolini s Italy (1919-1927) VL - 38 SN - 0266-464X ER -