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Tragedy's endurance : performances of Greek tragedies and cultural identity in Germany since 1800 / Erika Fischer-Lichte

Erika Fischer-Lichte (Verfasser)

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press
[2017]

First Edition, impression: 1

xix, 398 Seiten : Illustrationen

Introduction : philhellenism and theatromania -- 1. Only with beauty man shall play : Goethe's production of Ion in Weimer (1802) -- 2. After the institionalization of bildung : the potsdam Antigone of 1841 -- 3. Wagner's gesamtkunstwerk and Nietzsche's vision of ancient Greek theatre -- 4. A culture in crisis : Max Reinhardt's productions of Greek tragedies (1903-1919) -- 5. Hailing a racial kinship : performances of Greek tragedies during the Third Reich -- 6. Of guilt and archetypes : post-war productions of Greek tragedies in the 1940s and 1950s -- 7. Inventing new forms of political theatre -- 8. On the origins of theatre and its link to the past : the Schaubühne's antiquity projects of 1974 and 1980 -- 9. Choric theatre : between tragic experience and participatory democracy

978-0-19-965163-4

Englisch

Großbritannien

Griechische Literatur
Theater, Tanz
Deutsche Literatur

Griechisch, Tragödie, Rezeption, Aufführung, Deutschland, Geschichte 1800-2017

882.0109

Classical presences

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-390) and index

1164246771