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Comedy and the public sphere, the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena, Arpad Szakolczai

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Comedy and the public sphere, the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena, Arpad Szakolczai

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Comedy and the public sphere

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bibliography

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776535216

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Arpad Szakolczai

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Routledge studies in social and political thought, 77

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the rebirth of theatre as comedy and the genealogy of the modern public arena

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The public sphere as a theatrical arena of mocking contest: comedy, mask, laughter. The public and its masks: permanent hyper-critique and hypocritical performance -- Nietzsche's intuitions: from theatre through humanist philology to Richard Wagner, or the genealogy of the modern world as stage -- Ridiculing as public weapon -- The rebirth of theatre as comedy out of the spirit of the Byzantium -- The Byzantine spirit and its sources. Transmitting, receiving and nurturing the Byzantine spirit -- The rise of theatre in Venice -- The effect mechanism of Commedia dell'Arte: visions and realities of commedification -- Commedia dell'Arte: schismogenic sub-plots and irresistible stock-types -- Shakespeare: the tragedy of world history being a comedy -- Representing representation: visionary images of Commedia dell'Arte -- The rebirth of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde. The rebirth of Pierrot as suffering victim -- Obsessed with Paris and public fame: Richard Wagner, the mimomaniac revolutionary -- Pierrot and Pulcinella in between Paris and Petersburg: the Avant-Garde of Diaghilev and Meyerhold -- Conclusion

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