Comedy and the public sphere : the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena / / Arpad Szakolczai.
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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge studies in social and political thought ;
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Physical Description: | xvii, 357 p. |
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Table of 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.