Comedy and the public sphere : the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena /: the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Árpád Szakolczai.
• Other Names: Szakolczai, Árpád
• Contents: Introduction -- The public sphere as a theatrical arena of mocking contest: comedy, mask, laughter. The public and its masks: permanent hyper-critique and hypocritical performance -- Nietzsche's intuitions: from theatre through humanist philology to Richard Wagner, or the genealogy of the modern world as stage -- Ridiculing as public weapon --The rebirth of theatre as comedy out of the spirit of the Byzantium -- The Byzantine spirit and its sources. Transmitting, receiving and nurturing the Byzantine spirit -- The rise of theatre in Venice -- The effect mechanism of Commedia dell'Arte: visions and realities of commedification -- Commedia dell'Arte: schismogenic sub-plots and irresistible stock-types -- Shakespeare: the tragedy of world history being a comedy -- Representing representation: visionary images of Commedia dell'Arte -- The rebirth of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde. The rebirth of Pierrot as suffering victim -- Obsessed with Paris and public fame: Richard Wagner, the mimomaniac revolutionary -- Pierrot and Pulcinella in between Paris and Petersburg: the Avant-Garde of Diaghilev and Meyerhold -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Subjects: 792.094; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Theater -- Europe -- History; Theater and society -- Europe -- History; Comedy; PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136172540; 1136172548
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