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Author Yates, W. E.

Title Theatre in Vienna
Published Cambridge, GBR : Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Series Cambridge Studies in German
Cambridge studies in German.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; 1 The establishment of the 'city of theatre' ; 1. The two theatres in the centre ; 2. Enlightenment reform ; 3. The first commercial theatres ; 2 Censorship ; 1. Censorship until 1848
2. Censorship after the 1848 Revolution 3 The 'old' Burgtheater; 1. From Palffy to Schreyvogel ; 2. The Laube era ; 3. The last years in the 'old' Burgtheater ; 4 Commercial theatres in 'Old Vienna' ; 1. Three 'popular theatres' ; 2. Karl Carl ; 3. The cultural climate and working environment
2. Nationalist sentiment: the Deutsches Volkstheater and the Raimundtheater 3. The Kaiserjubilaums-Stadttheater ; 7 Modernism at the end of the monarchy ; 1. Modern drama ; 2. Opera and operetta ; 8 1918-1945 ; 1. Economic depression ; 2. The art of the twenties
3. Austro-Fascism and Anschluss 9 The Second Republic ; 1. Postwar rebuilding ; 2. The present ; Appendix 1: Documents ; Appendix 2: Research resources ; 1. Theatre studies in the university; 2. The austrian theatre museum; 3. Archives and libraries; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
4. The debate about 'popular drama' 5. Pokorny, Treumann, and the decline of dialect comedy ; 5 Opera and operetta ; 1. Opera and ballet in the Biedermeier period ; 2. The rise of operetta ; 6 The late nineteenth century: new foundations ; 1. The Wiener Stadttheater
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ISBN 0511582668
9780511582660