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Author Ziolkowski, Theodore.

Title Scandal on stage : European theater as moral trial / Theodore Ziolkowski.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 190 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-183) and index.
Contents 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 Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahogonny) -- Overcoming the past. Defrocking the deputy (Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter) ; The wreck of the Medusa (Henze's Das Floss der Medusa).
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Subject Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Europe.
Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Europe.
Theater and society -- Europe.
Theater and society.
Theater -- Political aspects -- Europe.
Theater -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Ziolkowski, Theodore. Scandal on stage. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521112604 (DLC) 2009023521 (OCoLC)318871916
ISBN 9780511635052 (electronic book)
0511635052 (electronic book)
9780511632891
0511632894
9780521112604 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
0521112605 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781107412637 (paperback)
1107412633 (paperback)
Standard No. 9786612336836
10.1017/CBO9780511635502