| Scandal on Stage Contributor(s): Ziolkowski, Theodore (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521112605 ISBN-13: 9780521112604 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $70.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Ziolkowski analyses how the outrage caused by controversial plays or productions reflects the moral standards of the time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.480 |
| LCCN: 2009023521 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 202 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New plays and operas have often tried to upset the status quo or disturb the assumptions of theatre audiences. Yet, as this study explores, the reactions of the audience or of the authorities are often more extreme than the creators had envisaged, to include outrage, riots, protests or censorship. Scandal on Stage looks at ten famous theater scandals of the past two centuries in Germany and France as symptoms of contemporary social, political, ethical, and aesthetic upheavals. The writers and composers concerned, including Schiller, Stravinsky, Strauss, Brecht and Weil, portrayed new artistic and ideological ideas that came into conflict with the expectations of their audiences. In a comparative perspective, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how theatrical scandals reflect or challenge cultural and ethical assumptions and asks whether theatre can still be, as Schiller wrote, a moral institution: one that successfully makes its audience think differently about social, political and ethical questions. |