Reconsidering National Plays in Europe

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: van der Poll, Suze (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), van der Zalm, Rob (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Theater.; Performing arts.; Theater-History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Performing Arts.; Theatre History.
• Physical Description: XVII, 283 p. 21 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319753348
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75334-8

This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and how does it represent its national identity? The chapters provide an in-depth look at plays in eight different countries: Germany (Die Räuber, Friedrich Schiller), Switzerland (Wilhelm Tell, Friedrich Schiller), Hungary (Bánk Bán, József Katona), Sweden (Gustav Vasa, August Strindberg), Norway (Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen), the Netherlands (The Good Hope, Herman Heijermans), France (Tartuffe, Molière), and Ireland. This collection is especially relevant at a time of socio-political flux, when national identity and the future of the nation state is being reconsidered.