UID:
almafu_9959238370002883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 190 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-69960-3
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1-107-20280-9
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1-107-41263-3
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1-282-33683-5
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9786612336836
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0-511-63505-2
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0-511-63289-4
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0-511-63461-7
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0-511-63168-5
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0-511-63409-9
Content:
New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. Scandal on Stage looks at ten famous theater scandals of the past two centuries in Germany and France as symptoms of contemporary social, political, ethical, and aesthetic upheavals. The writers and composers concerned, including Schiller, Stravinsky, Strauss, Brecht and Weil, portrayed new artistic and ideological ideas that came into conflict with the expectations of their audiences. In a comparative perspective, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how theatrical scandals reflect or challenge cultural and ethical assumptions and asks whether theatre can still be, as Schiller wrote, a moral institution: one that successfully makes its audience think differently about social, political and ethical questions.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction. Scandals as a non-event? ; Art as provocation? ; Freedom of art? ; What is scandal? ; A moral institution? -- Overtures. The morality of robbers (Schiller's Die Räuber) ; The battle of Hernani (Hugo's Hernani) -- Scanning the surface. The drama of schnaps and forceps (Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang) ; The drama of the savage god (Jarry's Ubu Roi) -- Sounding the depths. Femme de siècle (Wilde/Strauss's Salome) ; Spring massacre (Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps) -- Diagnosing the present. Dancing toward the abyss (Schnitzler's Reigen) ; Trouble in Mahogonny (Brecht/Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahogonny) -- Overcoming the past. Defrocking the deputy (Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter) ; The wreck of the Medusa (Henze's Das Floss der Medusa).
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Introduction -- Overtures -- Scanning the surface -- Sounding the depths -- Diagnosing the present -- Overcoming the past -- Conclusion.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-511-63550-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-11260-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511635502
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