Jewish drama & theatre
Subtitle: from rabbinical intolerance to secular liberalism
By: Eli Rozik
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press; Liverpool University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Brighton; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781845195984
Subjects: Jewish theater; History; Jewish drama; History and criticism; Yiddish Theater; Yiddish drama; Theater; Religious aspects; Religion and drama
Other titles: Jewish drama and theatre
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-306) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : dramatic and theatrical creativity; title: Tangential Jewish drama. Jewish theatre and ritual origin; title: The Book of Job as Greek tragedy; title: Ezekiel's Exagoge; title: The binding of Isaac in theatre; title: Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina; title: Felipe Godinez' The Queen Esther; title: Leone de' Sommi's A comedy of betrothal; title: Advent of Yiddish Theatre. Adoption of theatre despite ritual; title: Sephardi roots of Jewish parody; title: The nature of carnival; title: The purim-shpil; title: The purim-rabbi; title: A tribute to Yiddish theatre; title: The languages of the Jews and Jewish theatre; title: The Jewish nature of Israeli theatre. Sacred narratives in secular contexts; title: Actualization in the Israeli theatre; title: Rina Yerushalmi's Jephthah's daughter; title: Sisera's mother and the Trojan women; title: Rina Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91; title: Nissim Aloni's The American princess; title: Hanoch Levin's Sufferings of Job.