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  1. The final curtain
    the art of dying on stage
    Author: Senelick, Laurence
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Anthem Press, London UK ; New York, NY

    This is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    This is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting.

    Before the nineteenth century, when death began to be confined behind closed doors, it was widely available as a spectacle. Death and the suffering that preceded it were in plain sight; no effort was made to hide the diseased and moribund. The absence of medical means of alleviating pain or of hygienic measures meant that the most distressing and abhorrent aspects of dying were out in the open. The contempt for human life shown by the law-courts and the death penalty for the slightest offence occasioned frequent and enthusiastically attended public executions. In addition, the Church and religion generally hoped, through elaborate rites and ceremonies, both before and after death, to invest it with an edifying value that could be extended for the greater good. The sacred and social ceremony makes a transition into an aesthetic and political performance, marking a more modern frame of mind.

    Neoclassic decorum eschewed such displays; and, after a heyday of spectacular dying on the nineteenth-century stage, critics again began to insist on more moderate displays. This conformed to the growing emphasis on mental processes and psychological complexity. However, it runs counter to the theatre's need for high color, extreme situations and fanciful invention. Denied house-room in literary drama, these desiderata found a welcome haven in the various manifestations of performance art

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781839983931
    RVK Categories: EC 7501
    Subjects: Stage death; Death in literature; Acting; Aufführung; Sterben <Motiv>; Drama
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 195 Seiten)
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    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2022)

    Early stages -- Murther most foul -- Death-defying feats -- Sick unto death -- Shadow and substance -- Epilogue: Post-mortem
  2. Woyzeck
    Contributor: Rasche, Ulrich; Roscher, Monika; Mastroberardino, Nicola; Hackl, Franziska; Strutzenberger, Thiemo
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  ZDF Theateredition, [Mainz] ; belvedere edition GmbH, [Berlin]

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    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Contributor: Rasche, Ulrich; Roscher, Monika; Mastroberardino, Nicola; Hackl, Franziska; Strutzenberger, Thiemo
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Other identifier:
    4260415080646
    RVK Categories: EC 7501
    Series: Die ganze Welt ist Bühne - Klassiker des Theaters ; 2,[10]
    Scope: 1 DVD-Video (151 min)
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  3. The final curtain
    the art of dying on stage
    Author: Senelick, Laurence
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Anthem Press, London UK ; New York, NY

    This is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    This is a book about dying, or, more accurately, about the representation of dying in the theatre. Its chief concern is how actors undertook to translate words and concepts into forms legible and significant to an audience. It deals with the ways in which playwrights wrote about death and attitudes towards death in their cultures. Nevertheless, the emphasis is on the practice of acting. Before the nineteenth century, when death began to be confined behind closed doors, it was widely available as a spectacle. Death and the suffering that preceded it were in plain sight; no effort was made to hide the diseased and moribund. The absence of medical means of alleviating pain or of hygienic measures meant that the most distressing and abhorrent aspects of dying were out in the open. The contempt for human life shown by the law-courts and the death penalty for the slightest offence occasioned frequent and enthusiastically attended public executions. In addition, the Church and religion generally hoped, through elaborate rites and ceremonies, both before and after death, to invest it with an edifying value that could be extended for the greater good. The sacred and social ceremony makes a transition into an aesthetic and political performance, marking a more modern frame of mind. Neoclassic decorum eschewed such displays; and, after a heyday of spectacular dying on the nineteenth-century stage, critics again began to insist on more moderate displays. This conformed to the growing emphasis on mental processes and psychological complexity. However, it runs counter to the theatre's need for high color, extreme situations and fanciful invention. Denied house-room in literary drama, these desiderata found a welcome haven in the various manifestations of performance art.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781839983924; 1839983922
    RVK Categories: EC 7501
    Subjects: Drama; Sterben <Motiv>; Aufführung
    Other subjects: Stage death; Death in literature; Acting
    Scope: x, 195 Seiten, Illustrationen
  4. Modern and contemporary world drama: critical and primary sources
    Contributor: Lee, Esther Kim (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    Location:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Contributor: Lee, Esther Kim (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781350121942
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    RVK Categories: EC 7501
    Subjects: Kulturbewegung; Soziale Bewegung; Drama; Literaturkritik; Theatertheorie; Theaterkritik; Weltliteratur; Globalisierung
    Other subjects: Drama / History and criticism; Drama; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Essays; Literary criticism; Literary criticism; Essays
    Scope: 4 Bände