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Theatre in Vienna : a critical history, 1776-1995
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- Creator
- W.E. Yates
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996
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- xx, 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0521421004, 0511005806, 0511582668, 0521022576, 9780511005800, 9780521421003, 9780511582660
- OCLC
- ocm48139303, ocm33243948
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and index.
- 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 Pálffy 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 ; 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 ; 2. Nationalist sentiment: the Deutsches Volkstheater and the Raimundtheater ; 3. The Kaiserjubiläums-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