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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... social role and the eternal self Popular theatre between religious and court theatre 8888888 80 80 86 91 96 Mask and mirror The court as stage - the self - fashioning of court society 626 97 97 L'honnête homme or the end of social ...
... social role - play 129 Discovering the identity in transformation : commedia dell'arte Theatre as a model of social reality 129 136 3 THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THE THEATRE OF ILLUSION 146 The middle - class family 146 From ...
... social groups and entire cultures at times of life crisis , change of status , or seasonal cycles . Birth , puberty , marriage , pregnancy , illness , famine , war and death represent certain threshold experiences . They are bound to a ...
... social reality of the theatregoers . For theatre has seldom been satisfied with merely depicting social reality . It is far more to be understood as an integrated and integrating element of social reality , changes in which it can ...
... social status of the theatre and its various artistic possi- bilities , documents of reception and all kinds of accounts which deal with the problem of identity . Thus , studies from social history , the history of mentalities ...
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 |