Goethe's Faust: theatre of modernity

"Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theatre productions, pre...

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Weitere Verfasser: Schulte, Hans (HerausgeberIn) , Noyes, John K. (HerausgeberIn) , Kleber, Pia (HerausgeberIn)
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Verfasserangaben:edited by Hans Schulte, John Noyes and Pia Kleber
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction Hans Schulte; Part I. Modernity: 1. Faust - today Albrecht Schöne; 2. Mephisto and the modernization of evil Rolf-Peter Janz; 3. Mephisto is the devil - or is he? Peter Huber; 4. 'Schwankende Gestalten': virtuality in Goethe's Faust Ulrich Gaier; 5. Amnesia and anamnesis in Goethe's Faust Wolf-Daniel Hartwich; 6. Cagliostro and Saint-Simon in Goethe's Faust II Hans-Jürgen Schings; 7. Faust's blindness Eberhard Lämmert; 8. From Faust to Harry Potter: discourses of the centaurs Gisela Brude-Firnau; 9. Mistra and the Peloponnes in Goethe's Faust II Wilhelm Blum; 10. Goethe and the grotesque: the 'classical Walpurgis night' Angela Borchert; 11. Redefining classicism: antiquity in Faust II Ernst Osterkamp; 12. Mephisto, the angels, and the homoerotic in Faust II W. Daniel Wilson; Part II. Theatre: 13. Goethe's Faust: theatre, meta-theatre, tragedy Martin Swales; 14. Faust beyond tragedy: hidden comedy, covert opera Dieter Borchmeyer; 15. Theatricality and experiment: identity in Faust Jane Brown; 16. Rhetorical action: Faust between rhetoric, poetics, and music Helmut Schanze; 17. Directing Faust: an interview Peter Stein; 18. A contradictory whole: Peter Stein stages Faust Dirk Pilz; 19. Rethinking and staging Faust at the State Theatre Stuttgart, 2005/6 Jörg Bochow; 20. Strehler's Faust in performance Laura Caretti; Select bibliography.