History of European Drama and TheatreRoutledge, 11 sept. 2002 - 416 pagini 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 Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information. |
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... performance . The term ' cultural performance ' was intro- duced by the American anthropologist Milton Singer in the 1950s to describe ' particular in- stances of cultural organisation , e.g. weddings , temple festivals , recitations ...
... performance which is particu- larly concerned with the formation and trans- formation of identity , but theatre , too . Here , it is a question of fashioning the self or staging the identity . And here , too , the staging occurs as a ...
... performance often belong closely together , that the drama according to one's perspective - is the pattern or material of any performance . This tight bond between drama and performance even determines the structure of the dramatic text ...
... performance of Bidermann's Cenodoxus , the Doctor of Paris in the Jesuit theatre of the seventeenth century which was probably nothing more than inflated propa- ganda . Others , on the contrary , are concerned - with witness accounts in ...
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Cuprins
Theatre and the polis | 8 |
The magic body | 33 |
The frail and tortured body | 40 |
the suppression of popular culture | 46 |
1 | 72 |
23 | 79 |
Honour disgraced and the forfeit of mercy | 86 |
Popular theatre between religious and court theatre | 92 |
THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND | 146 |
The loving father and his virtuous daughter | 155 |
the seducer and the mistress | 161 |
THEATRE OF THE NEW MAN 284 | 165 |
The mutilated individual | 170 |
Beyond the individual 298 | 171 |
The selfcastration of creative nature | 176 |
Symbol of the species | 182 |
From the theatrical to social roleplay | 129 |
Theatre as a model of social reality | 136 |
The transition from man into God | 190 |