Tragedy's endurance : performances of Greek tragedies and cultural identity in Germany since 1800 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Fischer-Lichte, Erika (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
• Έκδοση: First Edition.
• Σειρά: Classical presences
• Θέματα: Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική; Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Επιδράσεις; Θέατρο > Γερμανία > Ιστορία; Πολιτισμός, Δυτικός > Ελληνικές επιδράσεις; Πρόσληψη > Αρχαίο Θέατρο; Γερμανία > Πολιτισμός > Ελληνικές επιδράσεις.

 This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period. Philhellenism and theatromania took hold in this milieu amidst attempts to banish the heavily French-influenced German court culture of the mid-eighteenth century, and by 1800 their fusion in performances of Greek tragedies served as the German answer to the French Revolution. 

 Frontmatter List of Illustrations Preface 0: Introduction: Philhellenism and Theatromania 1: Only With Beauty Man Shall Play: Goethe's Production of Ion in Weimar (1802) 2: After the Institutionalization of Bildung: The Potsdam Antigone of 1841 3: Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk and Nietzsche's Vision of Ancient Greek Theatre 4: A Culture in Crisis: Max Reinhardt's Productions of Greek Tragedies (1903 19) Sophocles'/Hofmannsthal's Electra Greek Maenad or Modern Hysteric? Greek Tragedies in the Circus: Max Reinhardt's Theatre of the Five Thousand 5: Hailing a Racial Kinship: Performances of Greek Tragedies during the Third Reich Resurrecting Ancient Greece in Nazi Germany the Oresteia as Part of the Olympic Games in 1936 Ancient Tragedies in Times of War the Case of Antigone 6: Of Guilt and Archetypes: Post-War Productions of Greek Tragedies in the 1940s and 50s Oedipus and the Question of Collective Guilt Brecht's Antigone as a Model for Epic Theatre In Search of the 'Universal Human' Gustav Rudolf Sellner's Productions of Greek Tragedies in the 1950s