Tragedy and dramatic theatre / Hans-Thies Lehmann ; translated by Erik Butler

By:

Lehmann, Hans-Thies

Contributor(s):

Butler, Erik

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.Description: vii, 458 p.; 23 cmISBN:

9781138191969

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Contents:

Conté: Introduction: The theory of tragedy and theatrical experience; Tragic experience and aesthetic experience; Tragedy after drama; "Dramatic tragedy" and the core tragic motif; Overview; Contemporary tragedy -- PART I Theory/theatre/the tragic: 1. Palaia diaphora -- an "old quarrel" between philosophical theory and tragedy: Aristotelian themes: "mythos", logos, catharsis, anagnorisis; Chorus, text, performance; Philosophy and tragedy: a rivalry; Plato, mimesis, the state; The anti-tragic theatre of philosophy; Phantasia and "seeing"; The ghostly, terror, death. Tragic experienceDistance and dis-dance, beyond form; Shape, artist, do not speak!; The "vegetal" hero, experience, concept; "Stammerings in a foreign language"; Thinking on the stage; 2. Approaches to the tragic: The tragic mode; The tragic in everyday language and in the study of literature and theatre; Aspects of the tragic; Two models: conflict and transgression; Versions of transgression -- 3. Casus Seneca: Tragedy and the hyperbole of revenge: Hyperbole, nefas, furor; Revenge and the tragic theatre; "Medea fiam"; The subject as hyperbole -- 4. Theatre/experience and the tragic: On the concept of experience; Aspects of tragic experience; Playacting and watching: homo spectator; Catharsis and anagnorisis -- 5. The model of Antigone: Shaky order; Heidegger; Kinship and "prepolitical opposition" -- PART II Drama and tragedy: 6. The dramatization of tragedy: On predramatic tragedy in antiquity; Dramatization and representation; The characteristics of dramatic theatre; The theatre of terror; The production of Othello; Dramatic tragedy and the tragic subject -- 7. Pure dramatic tragedy: Racine: Neoclassical theory and practice; Racine, Lacan and the Imaginary -- 8. Tragoedia and Trauerspiel: Tragedy and mourning: Play, tragedy, Trauerspiel; Mourning in antiquity and modernity; Baroque politics and theatre; Trauerspiel and dramatic tragedy -- 9. Crises of dramatic tragedy: Schiller, Hölderlin, Kleist: Enlightenment and the tragic motif; Schiller; Hölderlin; Kleist -- PART III Dramatic and postdramatic tragedy: 10. The dissolution of the dramatic: Lyric tragedy: Maurice Maeterlinck; Turning away from dramatic dialogue; The tragic of the everyday; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; William Butler Yeats -- 11. Tragedy and postdramatic theatre: Historical avant-gardes:Artaud, Reinhardt, Brecht"The death of tragedy"; Insistence on the tragic; Death of tragedy?; The subject and the tragic; Tragic theatre today; "Tragedy of play", caesura and ritual

Summary: "An extraordinary milestone in Hans-Thies Lehmann's contributions to theatre and performance scholarship, Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre plots a course throught the history of dramatic thought. Moving from Aristotle and Seneca authoritative account of this coree foundation of the dramatic arts. Translated from the German, this volume traces tragedy from its philosophical roots to its inextricable relationship with drama and its impact upon post-dramatic forms. Tragedy and dramatic theatre is the definitive work in its field, and essential reading for anyone intereste in tragedy as an art form." -- Portadella

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"An extraordinary milestone in Hans-Thies Lehmann's contributions to theatre and performance scholarship, Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre plots a course throught the history of dramatic thought. Moving from Aristotle and Seneca authoritative account of this coree foundation of the dramatic arts. Translated from the German, this volume traces tragedy from its philosophical roots to its inextricable relationship with drama and its impact upon post-dramatic forms. Tragedy and dramatic theatre is the definitive work in its field, and essential reading for anyone intereste in tragedy as an art form." -- Portadella

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