Comedy and the public sphere : the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena / Arpad Szakolczai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szakolczai, Árpád, author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 77

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Europe--History.

Theater.

Theater and society--Europe--History.

Theater and society.

Comedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book aims at reframing the discussion on the ""public sphere,"" usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-203-08126-9

1-283-89426-2

1-136-17255-6

9780203081266

OCLC:

823389768