Modern European Tragedy: Exploring Crucial Plays
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1. Verfasser: Cascetta, Annamaria (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Anthem Press 2014
Schriftenreihe:Anthem studies in theatre and performance
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Beschreibung:Towards the Tragedy of Apotheosis and Derision: A Laboratory for 'Poor Theatre'
Modern European Tragedy; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Relevance of the Tragic, Irrelevance of Tragedy; The Tragic Scene in the Twentieth Century: A Selection of Dramatic and Performance Texts and a Hypothesis of Interpretation; Greek Tragedy: An Essential Frame of Reference; The Scenario of the Twentieth Century: Generations in Violence; Chapter 1 HUBRIS AND GUILT: 'GENGANGERE' (GHOSTS) BY HENRIK IBSEN; Janus bifrons; From Ancient to Modern Tragedy: Ibsen's Sources; The Tragic Nuclei; The Form of Modern Tragedy; A Perfect Theatrical Machine
Chapter 2 EVE BECOMES MARY: 'L'ANNONCE FAITE À MARIE' ('THE TIDINGS BROUGHT TO MARY') BY PAUL CLAUDELThe History of the Text; The Idea of the Tragic; Sources; The Tragic in the Form of a Mystery: Tradition and Modernity; Chapter 3 THE SCHOOL OF HATRED: 'MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA' BY EUGENE O'NEILL; In Europe, Thinking of the New Broadway; Structure and Plot; From Electra to Lavinia; Hatred: The Driving Force of the Tragedy; Tragic Pessimism: From the Autobiographical Plane to the Historical and the Philosophical-Anthropological
Chapter 4 THE DESTINY OF MAN IS MAN: 'MUTTER COURAGE UND IHRE KINDER' ('MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN') BY BERTOLT BRECHTThe Genesis of the Work; The Context: Europe in Catastrophe; A Mother without Tears and a Mute Who Beats the Drum of Vengeance. The Stone Begins to Speak.; Sources and Contexts: The Mentality of War; The Limit and Destiny of Humanity Lies in Others. Tragedy Is Not Inevitable. But Courage Learns Nothing.; Tragedy and the Epic Style; Chapter 5 THE TRAGIC AND THE ABSURD: 'CALIGULA' BY ALBERT CAMUS; History of the Text and Contexts
The First Version of Caligula in 'les trois Absurdes'The Faces of the Absurd: From the First Caligula to the Last; From the Historical Character to the Tragic-Absurd Character: 'Poetry is More Philosophical and More Important than History'; The Absurd and Caligula's Way: Nihilism; Grotesque Tragedy; Another Way: From Cherea to Rieux; Chapter 6 DIANOETIC LAUGHTER IN TRAGEDY: ACCEPTING FINITUDE: 'ENDGAME' BY SAMUEL BECKETT; 'He's crying. ... Then he's living': Weeping and Life; The Limit and the Evil of the World Disguised as a Minimalist Universe; Laughing at Tragedy; Form without Drama
Chapter 7 THE ARROGANCE OF REASON AND THE 'DISAPPEARANCE OF THE FIREFLIES': 'PILADE' ('PYLADES') BY PIER PAOLO PASOLINIThe Idea of the Tragic: Between Structure of the Human and Historical Transformation; The Theatre as 'Cultural Ritual'; Theatre as the Awareness and Pilot of Change; An Anthropological Key to 'Pylades'; The Return of the Same, or Destiny and the March of History; Chapter 8 THE APOCALYPSE OF A CIVILIZATION: FROM 'AKROPOLIS' TO 'APOCALYPSIS CUM FIGURIS' BY JERZY GROTOWSKI; An Introductory Summary; The Language of Nightmare; Our Acropolis: A Colossal Tragic Farce
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century - one of the most violent periods of human history - that the tragic form significantly developed. 'Modern European Tragedy' examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century's most outstanding texts
Beschreibung:264 pages
ISBN:9781783081615
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9781783081530
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