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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehmann, Hans-Thies, author.

Contributor:

Butler, Erik, 1971- translator.

Standardized Title:

Tragödie und dramatisches Theater. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Tragedy--History and criticism.

Tragedy.

Drama--History and criticism.

Drama.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 458 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

An extraordinary milestone in Hans-Thies Lehmann's contributions to theatre and performance scholarship, Tragedy and Dramatic Theatre plots a course through the history of dramatic thought. Moving from Aristotle and Seneca through Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane, it forms an authoritative account of this core 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 interested in tragedy as an art form. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Theory/theatre/the tragic 17

1 Palaia diaphora - an "old quarrel" between philosophical theory and tragedy 19

Aristotelian themes: "mythos", logos, catharsis, anagnorisis 19

Chorus, text, performance 21

Philosophy and tragedy: a rivalry 23

Plato, mimesis, the state 24

The anti-tragic theatre of philosophy 25

Phantasia and "seeing" 26

The ghostly, terror, death 28

Tragic experience 30

Distance and d is-dance, beyond form 30

Shape, artist, do not speak! 32

The "vegetal" hero, experience, concept 32

"Stammerings in a foreign language" 34

Thinking on the stage 34

2 Approaches to the tragic 41

The tragic mode 41

The tragic in everyday language and in the study of literature and theatre 45

Aspects of the tragic 52

Two models: conflict and transgression 59

Versions of transgression 78

3 Casus Seneca: Tragedy and the hyperbole of revenge 104

Hyperbole, nefas, furor 104

Revenge and the tragic theatre 106

"Medea fiam" 109

The subject as hyperbole 113

4 Theatre/experience and the tragic 115

On the concept of experience 115

Aspects of tragic experience 121

Playacting and watching: homo spectator 144

Catharsis and anagnorisis 156

5 The model of Antigone 171

Shaky order 178

Heidegger 183

Kinship and "prepolitical opposition" 185

Part II Drama and tragedy 191

6 The dramatization of tragedy 193

On predramatic tragedy in antiquity 193

Dramatization and representation 206

The characteristics of dramatic theatre 210

The theatre of terror 228

The production of Othello 235

Dramatic tragedy and the tragic subject 239

7 Pure dramatic tragedy: Racine 253

Neoclassical theory and practice 254

Racine, Lacan and the Imaginary 269

8 Tragoedia and Trauerspiel: Tragedy and mourning 287

Play, tragedy, Trauerspiel 290

Mourning in antiquity and modernity 292

Baroque politics and theatre 292

Trauerspiel and dramatic tragedy 295

9 Crises of dramatic tragedy: Schiller, Hölderlin, Kleist 299

Enlightenment and the tragic motif 299

Schiller 305

Hölderlin 330

Kleist 346

Part III Dramatic and postdramatic tragedy 359

10 The dissolution of the dramatic: Lyric tragedy 361

Maurice Maeterlinck 368

Turning away from dramatic dialogue 371

The tragic of the everyday 372

Hugo von Hofmannsthal 378

William Butler Yeats 381

11 Tragedy and postdramatic theatre 390

Historical avant-gardes: Artaud, Reinhardt, Brecht 390

"The death of tragedy" 400

Insistence on the tragic 405

Death of tragedy? 410

The subject and the tragic 417

Tragic theatre today 423

"Tragedy of play", caesura and ritual 438.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138852617

1138852619

9781138191969

1138191965

OCLC:

928750625