This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity
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This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION; RITUAL THEATRE; THEATRUM VITAE HUMANAE; THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THE THEATRE OF ILLUSION; DRAMATISING THE IDENTITY CRISIS; THEATRE OF THE 'NEW' MAN; Notes; Bibliography; Index of dramatic works; General index;
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national,...
mehr
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity.Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:* ancient Greek theatre* Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière* the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama* the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz* roma
History of European Drama and Theatre; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Theatre and identity: theatre as a liminal space; 1 Ritual Theatre; The tragic hero; Theatre and the polis; From curse of the clans to political identity; Conditio humana; Relapse into barbarism; The magic body; Between religious and secular culture: the religious play; The vital body; The frail and tortured body; The end of the plays: the suppression of popular culture; 2 Theatrum Vitae Humanae; Theatre as laboratory - man as experiment; 'All the world's a stage'; Creator and destroyer of the self
Transformation and discovering identity - from the rites of May to 'rite of passage'The loss of identity in chaos: the end of the world; The seducer, the martyr and the fool - theatrical archetypes in the Siglo de Oro; 'The great theatre of the world'; Honour disgraced and the forfeit of mercy; The transitory social role and the eternal self; Popular theatre between religious and court theatre; Mask and mirror; The court as stage - the self-fashioning of court society; L'honnête homme or the end of social intercourse through noble 'amour propre'; The gaze of the other and the gaze of the king
The stage world as mirror image of the courtFrom the theatrical to social role-play; Discovering the identity in transformation: commedia dell'arte; Theatre as a model of social reality; 3 The Rise of the Middle Classes and the Theatre of Illusion; The middle-class family; From strolling players to moral institution: theatre as one constituent of public life; The loving father and his virtuous daughter; The court as counterworld: the seducer and the mistress; The body as 'natural sign' of the soul - the reception of the bürgerliche Trauerspiel and the development of a new art of acting
The mutilated individual'Nature! Nature! Nothing is so like Nature as Shakespeare's figures'; From the mutilation of the hand to the mutilation of freedom; The self-castration of creative nature; Symbol of the species; From fragment to whole; The ideal society of autonomous individuals; 'The transition from man into God'; Middle-class Bildungstheater; 4 Dramatising the Identity Crisis; The enigmatic personality; Personality as a social category in the nineteenth century; The discovery of the unconscious; Decaying values; The outsider: the noble robber and the artist
The demontage of 'personality' in the Vienna VolkstheaterIdentity and history; The power of history to define identity; The dissolution of the self in history; The 'fatalism of history' and the concrete utopia of physical nature; The fall of the bourgeois myths; The stage as a public forum of the bourgeoisie; The family; The lie of family life; The battle of the sexes; The fatherless family; The great personality - the artist; The charismatic artist and the 'femme fatale'; The search for the self; Just ordinary people 'like everyone else …'
The completion and end of the bourgeois theatre of illusion
