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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... sense of identity, Rousseau believed, they should not accept theatre into their society. The concept of identity which Rousseau assumes to be fundamental is clearly a static one: identity is understood as something which is either given ...
... sense of identity , Rousseau believed , they should not accept theatre into their society . The concept of identity which Rousseau assumes to be fundamental is clearly a static one : identity is understood as something which is either ...
... sense , it can be argued that theatre thema- tises and reflects the de - centred position of for man and the potential resulting from it - example , in language , in perceiving the self and the other , in the instrumental , expressive ...
... sense , it can be understood as the symbolisation of the conditio humana . Differences do exist , however - in part deep differences in the extent to which , and the explicitness with which , the fundamental theatrical situation is used ...
... sense , theatre can be described as a liminal space . If both the rite of transition and the theatre represent a genre of cultural performance concerned with the creation , self - fashioning and transformation of identity , then this ...
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 |