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Scandal on Stage

Theodore Ziolkowski
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      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Theodore Ziolkowski EAN: 9780521112604 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 470 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-09-24 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General WIDTH: 159 cm SPINE:

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      Theatre studies, Literary studies: general

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      Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor (Emeritus) of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Theodore Ziolkowski EAN: 9780521112604 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 470 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cambridge University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-09-24 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General WIDTH: 159 cm SPINE:

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      Theatre studies, Literary studies: general

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      Theodore Ziolkowski is Class of 1900 Professor (Emeritus) of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

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