History of European Drama and TheatreThis 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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Contents
Theatre and the polis | 8 |
The magic body | 33 |
The frail and tortured body | 40 |
the suppression of popular culture | 46 |
The seducer the martyr and the fool theatrical | 80 |
From the theatrical to social roleplay | 129 |
Theatre as a model of social reality | 136 |
THE RISE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND | 146 |
The fatalism of history and the concrete utopia of physical nature | 238 |
The fall of the bourgeois myths | 244 |
The completion and end of the bourgeois theatre | 281 |
Beyond the individual | 298 |
The multiplicity of roles in the theatre of life or the multiple | 306 |
the new man in the theatre | 314 |
Dismemberment and rebirth | 324 |
the redeemed and redeeming body | 332 |
The loving father and his virtuous daughter | 155 |
the seducer and the mistress | 161 |
The mutilated individual | 170 |
The selfcastration of creative nature | 176 |
Symbol of the species | 182 |
The transition from man into God | 190 |
Middleclass Bildungstheater | 199 |
Identity and history | 230 |
Men of new flesh | 341 |
Notes | 352 |
23 | 354 |
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