Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface Richard L. Rudolph
Notes on Contributors
DRAMATIC THEATER
Introduction: Rethinking Drama and Theater in Austria and Central Europe Halina Filipowicz 3
Part I: The Enlightenment and the “New Beginning”
Chapter 1. “By and By We Shall Have an Enlightened Populace”: Moral Optimism and the Fine Arts in Late-Eighteenth-Century Austria Ernst Wangermann
Chapter 2. Taming a Transgressive National Hero: Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Nineteenth-Century Polish Drama Halina Filipowicz
Chapter 3. Nestroy and His Naughty Children: A Plebeian Tradition in the Austrian Theater Carl Weber
Chapter 4. Pantomime, Dance, Sprachskepsis, and Physical Culture in German and Austrian Modernism Harold B. Segel
Chapter 5. Populism versus Elitism in Max Reinhardt’s Austrian Productions of the 1920s Michael Patterson
Part Two: Post-Holocaust and Postmodern Theater
Chapter 6. Elfriede Jelinek’s Nora Project; or, What Happens When Nora Meets the Capitalists Christine Kiebuzinska
Chapter 7. George Tabori’s Return to the Danube, 1987–1999 Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer
Chapter 8. Thomas Bernhard’s Heldenplatz: Artists and Societies beyond the Scandal Alfred Pfabigan
Chapter 9. Pulling the Pants Off History: Politics and Postmodernism in Thomas Bernhard’s Eve of Retirement Jeanette R. Malkin
MUSICAL THEATER
Introduction: Conflict and Crosscurrents in Viennese Music Michael Cherlin
Part III: The Emergence of the Classical Style
Chapter 10. Vienna as a Center of Ballet Reform in the Late Eighteenth Century Sibylle Dahms
Chapter 11. The Viennese Singspiel, Haydn, and Mozart Eva Badura-Skoda
Chapter 12. Displaying (Out)Rage: The Dilemma of Constancy in Mozart’s Operas Gretchen A. Wheelock
Part IV: Some Major Transformations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chapter 13. Karl Goldmark’s Operas during the Directorship of Gustav Mahler Peter Revers
Chapter 14. A Break in the Scenic Traditions of the Vienna Court Opera: Alfred Roller and the Vienna Secession Evan Baker
Chapter 15. Schoenberg’s Music for the Theater Michael Cherlin
References Index