Screen LibraryScandal on stage：European theater as moral trial
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 190 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780521112604 (hardback : alk. paper) 0521112605 (hardback : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J895 |
| CLC: | J895 |
| Call Number: | J895/Z79 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction. Scandals as a non-event? ; Art as provocation? ; Freedom of art? ; What is scandal? ; A moral institution? -- Overtures. The morality of robbers (Schiller's Die Räuber) ; The battle of Hernani (Hugo's Hernani) -- Scanning the surface. The drama of schnaps and forceps (Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang) ; The drama of the savage god (Jarry's Ubu Roi) -- Sounding the depths. Femme de siècle (Wilde/Strauss's Salome) ; Spring massacre (Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps) -- Diagnosing the present. Dancing toward the abyss (Schnitzler's Reigen) ; Trouble in Mahogonny (Brecht/Weill's A |