Theatre in Vienna : a critical history, 1776-1995 /
This is the first general history in English of theatre in Vienna, the one German-speaking city which, in the eighteenth century and for most of the nineteenth, sustained a theatrical life comparable to that of Paris or London. The book covers this theatrical culture from the beginnings of modern th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in German.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The establishment of the "city of theatre": 1. The two theatres in the centre ; 2. Enlightenment reform ; 3. The first commercial theatres
- 2. Censorship: 1. Censorship until 1848 ; 2. Censorship after the 1848 Revolution
- 3. The "old" Burgtheater: 1. From Pálffy to Schreyvogel ; 2. The Laube era ; 3. The last years in the "Old" Burgtheater
- 4. Commercial theatres in "Old Vienna": 1. Three "popular theatres" ; 2. Karl Carl ; 3. The cultural climate and working environment ; 4. The debate about "popular drama" ; 5. Pokorny, Treumann, and the decline of dialect comedy
- 5. Opera and operetta: 1. Opera and ballet in the Biedermeier period ; 2. The rise of operetta
- 6. The late nineteenth century: new foundations: 1. The Wiener Stadttheater ; 2. Nationalist sentiment: the Deutsches Volkstheater and the Raimundtheater ; 3. The Kaiserjubiläums-Stadttheater
- 7. Modernism at the end of the monarchy: 1. Modern drama ; 2. Opera and operetta
- 8. 1918-1945: 1. Economic depression ; 2. The art of the twenties ; 3. Austro-Fascism and Anschluss
- 9. The Second Republic: 1. Postwar rebuilding ; 2. The present.