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III. Perspectives on the world : comedy, melancholy, theatrum mundi -- 'Very tragical mirth' : the play within the play as a strategy for interweaving tragedy and comedy / Frank Zipfel -- Play and reality in Austrian drama : the figure of the Magister Ludi / Herbert Herzmann -- Playing tragedy : detaching tragedy from itself in classical drama from Lessing to Büchner / Helmut J. Schneider -- Playwrights playing with history : the play within the play and German historical drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) / Gerhard Fischer -- Postmodernism unmasked : Rainald Goetz's Festung and Albert Ostermaier's The making of B-movie / Birgit Haas -- IV. The play within the play as agency of socio-cultural reflection and intercultural appropriation -- The context within : the play within the play between theatre anthropology, system theory and postcolonial critique / Lada Cale Feldman -- Intercultural framing in Aimé Césaire's Une tempête / Maurice Blackman -- Re-interpreting shadow material in an ancient Greek myth : Another night : Medea / Kyriaki Frantzi -- V. The play within the play as agency of intermedial transformation -- The play within the play and opera -- John Gay and the frame play / Yvonne Noble -- Opera within opera : contexts for a metastasian interlude / Donald Bewley -- Theatrical transformation, media superimposition and scenic reflection : pictorial qualities of modern theatre and the Hofmannsthal/Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos / Theresia Birkenhauer -- The play within the play and film -- Pushkin in love, or : a (screen)play within the play. The cinematic potential of romantic-ironic narration in Eugene Onegin / Erika Greber -- The text within the text, the screen within the screen : multi-layered representations in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet / Alessandro Abbate -- 'Gotta dance' (in the dark) : Lars von Trier's critique of the musical genre / Ken Woodgate. The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play . The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized special The play within the play : scholarly perspectives / Gerhard Fischer and Bernhard Greiner -- I. The play within the play and the performance of self-reflection -- The birth of the subject out of the spirit of the play within the play : the Hamlet paradigm / Bernhard Greiner -- Self-reflexivity in the play within the play and its cross-genre manifestation / Yifen Beus -- 'Backstage discourse' : staging the other in ethnographic and colonial literature / Klaus R. Scherpe -- The play within the play and the closure of representation / David Roberts -- Playing and not playing in Jean Genet's The balcony and The Blacks / Caroline Sheaffer-Jones -- II. The play within the play and meta-theatre -- Self-reflection and self-reference -- The figure in the carpet : metadramatical concepts in Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602) / Christian Sinn -- Holding a mirror up to theatre : Baro, Gougenot, Scudéry and Corneille as self-referentialists in Paris, 1628-1635/36 / John Golder -- Rehearsing the endgame : Max Frisch's Biography : a play / Manfred Jurgensen -- Tom Stoppard's The real Inspector Hound (1968) and The real thing (1982) : new frames and old / Barnard Turner -- The invisible fool : Botho Strauss's postmodern metadrama and the history of theatrical reality / Ulrike Landfester -- The theatre and its audience -- Queen of a bathtub : Hanoch Levin's political, aesthetic and ethical metatheatricality / Shimon Levy -- The disguised and distanced real(ity) play within the fictitious play in Israeli stage-drama / Gad Kaynar -- A lacerated culture, a self-reflective theatre : the case of Israeli drama / Zahava Caspi. The play within the play in narrative fiction -- The game of the narrative : Kleist's fiction from a game-theoretical perspective / Tim Mehigan -- French beans and mashed potatoes : agonistic play and symbolic acting in Gottfried Keller's prose fiction / Alexander Honold -- Playing with the apparatus : Franz Kafka's 'In the penal colony' and Barrie Kosky's interpretation for the Melbourne International Arts Festival / Ulrike Garde.
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