Title Jewish Drama & Theatre : From Rabbinical Intolerance to Secular Liberalism

Published Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) Contents Front Cover; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Dramatic and Theatrical Creativity; Elements of Jewish theatre; The medium; The narrative; The system of values; The language; Nonverbal codes; The author; Theatre and ritual; Basic notions and analytical tools; Structure of the book; Part I: Tangential Jewish Drama; 1: Jewish Theatre and Ritual Origin; Advent of ancient drama/theatre; Cambridge School of Anthropology; Shamanist theory; Performance theory; Re-creation theory; The charm of ritual theories; 2: The Book of Job as Greek Tragedy Between frame and bodyFictional structure; Considerations of medium; Deus ex machina; Possible performing cast; Jewish nature of the book; 3: Ezekiel's Exagoge; Fragments; Between prologue and ending; The Exagoge as drama; The Exagoge as Greek tragedy; The purpose of the Exagoge; 4: The Binding of Isaac in Theatre; The Binding in the Bible; The Binding in Christian theatre; Motifs from Genesis; Departures from Genesis; Staging the Brome version; An attempt at interpretation; The Binding in Christian art; The Jewish contribution; 5: Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina; Narrative Celestina, procuress, witch and mender of hymensParmeno's witch mother; Calixto's idolatry; Melibea's 'honra'; Pleberio's experience of the absurd; La Celestina and psychology; Social criticism; Fictional structure; Literary fiction or drama?; Christian motifs; Jewish motifs; 6: Felipe Godinez' The Queen Esther; The Queen Esther; Biblical motifs; Departures from the Bible; The prophesy motif; Interpretation; 7: Leone de' Sommi's A Comedy of Betrothal; Narrative; Lipshitz: The role of language; Scolnicov: Serlio's stage design; Levy: Artistic assessment; The play-script's Jewish nature Hebrew drama after de' SommiPart II: Advent of Yiddish Theatre; 8: Adoption of Theatre despite Ritual; The ritual of Purim; Rule of misrule; 9: Sephardi Roots of Jewish Parody; Sephardi parody; Parody's paths of propagation; A wider definition of 'parody'; Parodies of the Scroll of Esther; 10: The Nature of Carnival; Spirit of carnival; Mask and disguise; Carnivalesque parodies of ritual; 11: The Purim-shpil; Element of theatre; Jewish narratives; A Jewish language; Parodic element; Carnivalesque element; Circumstances of performance; From ritual to secular theatre; 12: The Purim-rabbi The Feast of FoolsA model of the custom; Circumstances of performance; Elements of the mock ritual; 13: A Tribute to Yiddish Theatre; Goldfaden's The Sorceress; The 'Shund' theatre; Gordin's Mire'le Efros; Ansky's The Dybbuk; Leivick's The Golem; 14: The Languages of the Jews and Jewish Theatre; Hebrew; Aramaic; Yiddish; Ladino; National languages of host cultures; The Jewish Enlightenment movement; Yiddish and Hebrew in literature and drama; Part III: The Jewish Nature of Israeli Theatre; 15: Sacred Narratives in Secular Contexts; Reconsidering myth; Basic features of myth Summary Jewish theater has followed a tortuous path from extreme rabbinical intolerance to eventual secular liberalism, with its openness to the heritages of both Judaism as a culture and prominent foreign cultures, to the extent of multicultural integration. Arguing that since biblical times until the 17th century, there are only examples of tangential theater practices, this account details the history of the creation and progression of Jewish drama and theater. It states that the initial intolerance, shared by the Church, was rooted in pagan connota Notes Functional approaches to myth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-306) and index Notes Print version record Subject Jewish theater -- History Jewish drama -- History and criticism Theater, Yiddish -- History Yiddish drama -- History and criticism Theater -- Israel -- History Theater -- Religious aspects. Religion and drama. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Jewish drama Jewish theater Religion and drama Theater Theater -- Religious aspects Theater, Yiddish Yiddish drama Performing arts. Israel Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 178284094X 9781782840947 9781782840961 1782840966

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