Comedy and the public sphere
Subtitle: the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena
By: by  Árpád Szakolczai
Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought -- 77
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780415623919
Subjects: Theater and society; Comedy; Theater; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The public sphere as a theatrical arena of mocking contest: comedy, mask, laughter. The public and its masks: permanent hyper-critique and hypocritical performance; title: Nietzsche's intuitions: from theatre through humanist philology to Richard Wagner, or the genealogy of the modern world as stage; title: Ridiculing as public weapon; title: The rebirth of theatre as comedy out of the spirit of the Byzantium; title: The Byzantine spirit and its sources.  Transmitting, receiving and nurturing the Byzantine spirit; title: The rise of theatre in Venice; title: The effect mechanism of Commedia dell'Arte: visions and realities of commedification; title: Commedia dell'Arte: schismogenic sub-plots and irresistible stock-types; title: Shakespeare: the tragedy of world history being a comedy; title: Representing representation: visionary images of Commedia dell'Arte; title: The rebirth of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde.  The rebirth of Pierrot as suffering victim; title: Obsessed with Paris and public fame: Richard Wagner, the mimomaniac revolutionary; title: Pierrot and Pulcinella in between Paris and Petersburg: the Avant-Garde of Diaghilev and Meyerhold; title: Conclusion.