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Author:   Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, Ireland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   77
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9780415623919

ISBN 10:   041562391
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   26 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: The Public Sphere as a Theatrical Arena of Mocking Contest: Comedy, Mask, Laughter 1. The Public and Its Masks: Permanent Hyper-Critique and Hypocritical Performance 2. Nietzsche’s Intuitions: From Theatre Through Humanist Philology to Richard Wagner, or the Genealogy of the Modern World As Stage 3. Ridiculing as Public Weapon Part 2: The Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy out of the Spirit of the Byzantium 4. The Byzantine Spirit and Its Sources 5. Transmitting, Receiving and Nurturing the Byzantine Spirit 6. The Rise of Theatre in Venice Part 3: The Effect Mechanism of Commedia dell’Arte: Visions and Realities of Commedification 7. Commedia dell’Arte: Schismogenic Sub-Plots and Irresistible Stock-Types 8. Shakespeare: The Tragedy of World History Being a Comedy 9. Representing Representation: Visionary Images of Commedia dell’Arte Part 4: The Rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte as the Avant-garde 10. The Rebirth of Pierrot as Suffering Victim 11. Obsessed with Paris and Public Fame: Richard Wagner, the Mimomaniac Revolutionary 12. Pierrot and Pulcinella in Between Paris and Petersburg: The Avant-Garde of Diaghilev and Meyerhold. Conclusion.

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Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.

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