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The Great Tradition and Its Legacy : The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe / ed. by Michael Cherlin, Richard L. Rudolph, Halina Filipowicz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571814036
  • 9781782381686
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.09436 792/.09436
LOC classification:
  • PN2611 .G65 2003
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- DRAMATIC THEATER -- Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe -- Part One: The Enlightenment and the “New Beginning” -- 1. “By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace”: Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria -- 2. Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kos´ciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama -- 3. Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater -- 4. Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism -- 5. Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt’s Austrian Productions of the 1920s -- Part Two: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater -- 6. Elfriede Jelinek’s Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists -- 7. George Tabori’s Return to the Danube, 1987–1999 -- 8. Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal -- 9. Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard’s Eve of Retirement -- MUSICAL THEATER -- Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music -- Part Three: The Emergence of the Classical Style -- 10. Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century -- 11. The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart -- 12. Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart’s Operas -- Part Four: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 13. Karl Goldmark’s Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler -- 14. A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession -- 15. Schoenberg’s Music for the Theater -- References -- Index
Summary: Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- DRAMATIC THEATER -- Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe -- Part One: The Enlightenment and the “New Beginning” -- 1. “By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace”: Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria -- 2. Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kos´ciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama -- 3. Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater -- 4. Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism -- 5. Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt’s Austrian Productions of the 1920s -- Part Two: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater -- 6. Elfriede Jelinek’s Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists -- 7. George Tabori’s Return to the Danube, 1987–1999 -- 8. Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal -- 9. Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard’s Eve of Retirement -- MUSICAL THEATER -- Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music -- Part Three: The Emergence of the Classical Style -- 10. Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century -- 11. The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart -- 12. Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart’s Operas -- Part Four: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 13. Karl Goldmark’s Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler -- 14. A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession -- 15. Schoenberg’s Music for the Theater -- References -- Index

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Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings and dynamics of theater through a discussion of the interplay between society, the audience, and performing artists.

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