The Austrian theatrical tradition encompasses a wide variety of types, from Mozart's light operas to the political drama of the present day. This volume describes the main features of Austrian theatre and performance, taking a close look at the works of its key writers. Beginning with Mozart, Grillparzer and Nestroy, it moves on to the feminist theatre of Elfriede Jelinek, the provocations of Peter Handke and the Graz avant-garde, and the satirical comedies of Vaclav Havel. It raises fundamental questions about the relationship between public performance and national identity, gender and sexuality, audience and spectacle, as well as problems of translation and reception. Encompassing music, theatre, politics and performance, this is a wide-ranging account of a thriving and defining feature of Austrian cultural identity.
3 | The Land of the Piano: Music, Theatre and Performance in Vienna around 1800 Peter Branscombe | Cite |
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20 | The Sexual Politics of Mozart's Magic Flute and the Genesis of Viennese 'Charm' John Milfull | Cite |
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27 | Beating the Bounds: Fantasy and Farce in Nestroy's Comedy Louise Adey Huish | Cite |
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39 | Altenberg's African Spectacle: Ashantee in Context Ian Foster | Cite |
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61 | Love's Labour's Lost: Translations of Schnitzler's Reigen Konstanze Fliedl | Cite |
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73 | Hofmannsthal's 'Mythological' Opera Arabella Srdan Bogosavljevic | Cite |
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81 | Friedrich Kiesler and Theatrical Modernism in Vienna John Warren | Cite |
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93 | Ernst Weiss: The Novelist as Dramatist Klaus-Peter Hinze | Cite |
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102 | Performance and Provocation in Graz, 1960-1966 Simon Ryan | Cite |
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116 | The Staging of History in Felix Mitterer's Die Kinder des Teufels T. E. Bourke | Cite |
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126 | Jelinek's Ibsen: 'Noras' Past and Present Allyson Fiddler | Cite |
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139 | Havel's Satirical Theatre J. P. Stern | Cite |
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153 | Haydn Studies and the Mozart Bicentenary Denis McCaldin | Cite |
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158 | Recent Nestroy Scholarship W. E. Yates | Cite |
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171 | The Ideology of the Salzburg Festival Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler | Cite |
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178 | Review of Anton Schindling and Walter Ziegler, Die Kaiser der Neuzeit 1519-1918: Heiliges Römisches Reich, Osterreich, Deutschland Charles Ingrao | Cite |
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179 | Review of Waltraud Heindl, Gehorsame Rebellen: Biirokratie und Beamte in Osterreich, 1780 bis 1848 R. J. W. Evans | Cite |
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180 | Review of Edith Saurer, Strafie, Schmuggel, Lottospiel: Materielle Kultur und Staat in Niederbsterreich, Böhmen und Lombardo-Venetien im frühen 19. Jahrhundert T. C. W. Blanning | Cite |
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181 | Review of Peter Branscombe, W. A. Mozart: 'Die Zauberflöte' Tim Carter | Cite |
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181 | Review of John A. Rice, W. A. Mozart: 'La clemenza di Tito' Tim Carter | Cite |
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184 | Review of Erich Wolfgang Partsch, Franz Schubert: Der Fortschrittliche? Ewan West | Cite |
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184 | Review of Elizabeth Norman McKay, Schubert's Music for the Theatre Ewan West | Cite |
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186 | Review of Hugo Aust, Peter Haida and Jürgen Hein, Volksstück Peter Branscombe | Cite |
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186 | Review of Alfred Ziltener, Hanswursts lachende Erben Peter Branscombe | Cite |
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188 | Review of Steven Beller, Herzl Jacques Le Rider | Cite |
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189 | Review of Burkhard Spinnen, Schriftbilder: Studien zu einer Geschichte emblematischer Kurzprosa Leo A. Lensing | Cite |
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192 | Review of Dierk Rodewald and Corinna Fiedler, Samuel Fischer and Hedwig Fischer, Briefwechsel mit Autoren Konstanze Fliedl | Cite |
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196 | Review of Burton Pike and David S. Luft, Robert Musil, Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses Duncan Large | Cite |
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196 | Review of Hannah Hickman, Robert Musil and the Literary Landscape of his Time Duncan Large | Cite |
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196 | Review of Claus Erhart, Der ästhetische Mensch bei Robert Musil Duncan Large | Cite |
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198 | Review of Phillip H. Rhein, The Verbal and Visual Art of Alfred Kubin R. S. Furness | Cite |
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199 | Review of Jura Soyfer, Sturmzeit: Briefe 1931-1939 Ian Huish | Cite |
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199 | Review of Gerhard Scheit, Theater und revolutionärer Humanismus Ian Huish | Cite |
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201 | Review of Gerald Stieg, Frucht des Feuers: Canetti, Doderer,Kraus und der Justizpalastbrand Jürgen Thoming | Cite |
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203 | Review of Jill Lewis, Fascism and the Working Class in Austria 1918-1934 Tim Kirk | Cite |
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203 | Review of Edith Prost, 'Die Partei hat mich nie enttäuscht‘: Österreichische Sozialdemokratinnen Jill Lewis | Cite |
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205 | Review of Johann Holzner, Sigurd Paul Scheichl and Wolfgang Wiesmüller, Eine schwierige Heimkehr. Österreichische Literatur im Exil 1938-1945 J. M. Ritchie | Cite |
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205 | Review of Peter Muhr, Paul Feyerabend and Cornelia Wegeler, Philosophie, Psychoanalyse, Emigration J. M. Ritchie | Cite |
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207 | Review of Malcolm Pines and Roy Wisbey, Translation in Transition: The Question of the 'Standard Edition' Darius Gray Ornston | Cite |
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210 | Review of Günther Feuerstein, Visionäre Architektur: Wien 1958/1988 Iain Boyd Whyte | Cite |
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210 | Review of Peter Noever, Tradition und Experiment: Das Österreichische Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Iain Boyd Whyte | Cite |
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210 | Review of John Zukowsky and Ian Wardropper, Austrian Architecture in the Nineties Iain Boyd Whyte | Cite |
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