Tragedy's endurance : performances of Greek tragedies and cultural identity in Germany since 1800 /
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 mili...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Έκδοση: | First Edition. |
| Σειρά: | Classical presences
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- 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
- 7: Inventing New Forms of Political Theatre Linking Greek with other 'Naive' Cultures Benno Besson's Oedipus Tyrant Lehrstucke on the Imminent Disintegration of the State Topicalizing the Tragedies of Ancient Greece: Hans Neuenfels' Medea (1976) and Christoph Nel's Antigone (1978) in Frankfurt 8: On the Origins of Theatre and Its Link to the Past: The Schaubuhne's Antiquity Projects of 1974 and 1980 Antiquity Project I Peter Stein's Exercises for Actors and Klaus Michael Gruber's The Bacchae Antiquity Project II Peter Stein's Oresteia: Reflections on the Historical Process 9: Choric Theatre: Between Tragic Experience and Participatory Democracy The Re-Birth of Tragedy out of the Chorus Choric Protests and a Peaceful Revolution Towards the Utopia of a Participatory Democracy 10: Epilogue: The Return of Dionysus: From Festive Performance to Global Spectacle Endmatter Appendix Bibliography I. Greek Tragedies II. Other Works Cited III. Reviews and Programme Notes Cited IV. Online References V. Films Index
