Reconsidering National Plays in Europe

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: van der Poll, Suze (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), van der Zalm, Rob (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Theater.; Performing arts.; Theater-History.; National/Regional Theatre and Performance.; Performing Arts.; Theatre History.

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 e...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction; Suze van der Poll & Rob van der Zalm
• 2. Schiller's Die Räuber: "Der Ort der Geschichte ist Teutschland"; Kati Röttger
• 3. Schiller's Wilhelm Tell: The National Play of Switzerland?; Elke Huwiler
• 4. Bánk Bán: The Hungarian National Play; Krisztina Lajosi
• 5. August Strindberg's Gustav Vasa - Sweden's National Drama?; Egil Törnqvist & Erik Mattsson
• 6. Peer Gynt - Norway's National Play; Suze van der Poll
• 7. A (Dutch) Tale of the Sea. The Good Hope by Herman Heijermans; Rob van der Zalm
• 8. Molière's Tartuffe and French National Identity: Reconfiguring the King, the People and the Church; Matthijs Engelberts
• 9. Theatre as a Moral Institution: 20th-Century Ireland; Joep Leerssen
• 10. Epilogue; Suze van der Poll & Rob van der Zalm.