1992

The Wagner Compendium

Calendar of Wagner’s Life, Works and Related Events   Barry Millington Who’s Who of Wagner’s Contemporaries   Barry Millington Historical Background   Konrad Bund The Holy Roman Empire from 1618 to 1789 The French Revolution and the Wars of Liberation: 1789-1815 Reaction and revolution: 1815-1849 German unification ‘from above’: 1850-1871 The Reich in Europe: 1871-1883 Intellectual Background Philosophy   …

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Unreasonable Behaviour

Part One: Becoming Streetwise Part Two: Going to the Wars Part Three: Matters of Life and Death Part Four: The End of the Affair

Re-interpreting Brecht

Introduction   Pia Kleber Questions concerning Brecht   Manfred Wekwerth The origins, aims and objectives of the Berliner Ensemble   Joachim Tenschert Two generations of post-Brechtian playwrights in the German Democratic Republic (Rolf Rohmer) Productions of Brecht’s plays on the West German stage, 1945-1986   Klaus Völker Ups and downs of British Brecht   John Willett Crossing the desert: Brecht …

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Systems of Rehearsal

TO BE: Konstantin Stanislavsky and Peter Brook TO BE AND NOT TO BE: Bertolt Brecht and Peter Brook LET BE: Jerzy Grotowski and Peter Brook Epilogue: A Multifaceted Ontology in Performance: Uniting Rough and Holy in Le Mahabharata.

Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany

Introduction: The Ambiguous Culture: Jazz in the Weimar Republic On the Index: The Third Reich’s Prewar Campaign[rtoc] Ideological foundations and polemics First public controls Raiding Jews and jazz Broadcasting and recordings Attempts at “German Jazz”[/rtoc] Jazz Defiant: The Reassertion of a Culture[rtoc] Jazz Alive The Jazz Congregation and Its High Priests Jazz Within Politics[/rtoc] Jazz …

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Scenes of Madness

Introduction Lessons at the Theatre Models of Madness The Stories Plays Tell Reality and Illusion Family Feuds Breaking Free From the Past Recoveries Conclusions

The Cambridge Cultural History: Volume 9, Modern Britain

Part I: The Cultural and Social Setting The Cultural and Social Setting  Roy Shaw and Gwen Shaw[rtoc] Wartime beginnings Post-war achievements and disillusion Cultural democracy: a mixed blessing? Radio, television, and the press The consumer society The youth culture phenomenon The permissive society The Arts Council Class, the New Left, and education Pressure groups in …

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