Narrating the Past through Theatre [electronic resource] : Four Crucial Texts /
Bennett, M.author.
This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences.
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modern Drama and the Translation of History's Narratives; 1 Danton's Memory: Structural Impossibilities in Büchner's Danton's Death; 2 Salome's Tale-Iokanaan's Telling- Wilde's Retelling: Historical Relativity and (Un)specifi city in Wilde's Salome; 3 Galileo's Narrative: Translating History's "Conditions" in Brecht's Life of Galileo; Conclusion: For All Seasons-The Particulars and the Universals of Man in Bolt's A Man for All Seasons; Bibliography; Index
"Palgrave pivot".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This cutting-edge title explores how narrating the past both conflicts and creates an interesting relationship with drama's 'continuing present' that arcs towards an unpredictable future. Theatre both brings the past alive and also fixes it, but through the performance process, allowing the past to be molded for future (not-yet-existent) audiences.
Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
Bolt, Robert.
Metaphysics.
Theater-History.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Literature.
Metaphysics.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Literature, general.