The Play Within the Play: The Performance of Meta-theatre and Self-reflectionGerhard Fischer, Bernhard Greiner The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the 'self' (the 'Hamlet paradigm'), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities. |
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Page vi
... Playwrights Playing with History: The Play within the Play and German Historical Drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) 249 Birgit Haas Postmodernism Unmasked: Rainald Goetz's Festung and Albert Ostermaier's The Making of B-Movie 267 IV ...
... Playwrights Playing with History: The Play within the Play and German Historical Drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) 249 Birgit Haas Postmodernism Unmasked: Rainald Goetz's Festung and Albert Ostermaier's The Making of B-Movie 267 IV ...
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... playwrights from Aristophanes to Heiner Müller have put to a wide range of purposes . However , scholarly perspectives on the play within the play do not need to be limited to European theatre . Indeed , the anthropological ...
... playwrights from Aristophanes to Heiner Müller have put to a wide range of purposes . However , scholarly perspectives on the play within the play do not need to be limited to European theatre . Indeed , the anthropological ...
Page xv
... playwrights and theatre practitioners . Finally , the play within the play has played a significant role as a structur- al principle to facilitate a process of mediation between media , or a move- ment of ' shifting ' between different ...
... playwrights and theatre practitioners . Finally , the play within the play has played a significant role as a structur- al principle to facilitate a process of mediation between media , or a move- ment of ' shifting ' between different ...
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... playwright's part and the self-reflexive aspect of the performance itself. This paper concerns the theoretical development of self-reflexivity in the play within the play and focuses its examination on early discussions that greatly ...
... playwright's part and the self-reflexive aspect of the performance itself. This paper concerns the theoretical development of self-reflexivity in the play within the play and focuses its examination on early discussions that greatly ...
Page 18
... playwrights are given so much freedom that their plays often exceed the physical capabilities of the nineteenth ... playwright freedom to incorporate elements, situations, characters, and even dialogue that are inconsistent in tone ...
... playwrights are given so much freedom that their plays often exceed the physical capabilities of the nineteenth ... playwright freedom to incorporate elements, situations, characters, and even dialogue that are inconsistent in tone ...
Contents
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15 | |
27 | |
5GFRoberts | 37 |
6GFSheafferJones | 47 |
6Sec II1 | 59 |
7GFSinn | 61 |
8JGolder | 77 |
19GFHaas | 267 |
19Sec IV | 283 |
20GFFeldman | 285 |
21GFBlackman | 297 |
22GFFrantzi | 307 |
22Sec V1 | 319 |
23GFNoble | 321 |
24GFBEWLEY | 335 |
9GFJurgensen | 101 |
10GFTurner | 113 |
11GFLandfester | 129 |
11Sec II2 | 143 |
12GFLevy | 145 |
13GFKaynar | 167 |
14GFCaspi | 189 |
14Sec III | 201 |
15GFZipfel 1 | 203 |
16GFHerzmann | 221 |
17Schneider | 237 |
18GFFischer | 249 |
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