TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dreyer, Matthias
T1  - Caesura of history : performing Greek tragedy after Brecht
T2  - Performance philosophy - journal
N2  - While for centuries Greek tragedies were performed only intermittently (Flashar 1991; Foley 1999; Macintosh et al. 2005; Hall and Macintosh 2005), the 1960s saw an enormous growth internationally in the staging of ancient dramas, and between 1960 and today, more Greek tragedies have been performed than in the entire period from antiquity to 1960.1 The new interest in ancient tragedy corresponded with a fundamental crisis in Western culture, issuing from the Shoah and gradually forcing its way into consciousness. After World War II, and especially since the 1960s, the question of history needed to be reconsidered. With the increasing dissolution of tradition, the interval between antiquity and the present became an unresolved problem. At the same time, a teleological understanding, which sees history as something that can be planned and calculated, had to be considered as failed, since fascism and communism "in the name of history" had erected totalitarian systems. What then appeared in this historical void?
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43919
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-439190
SN  - 2057-7176
N1  - © 2017 Matthias Dreyer. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
SP  - 241
EP  - 256
PB  - [s. n.]
CY  - Guildford
ER  -