... Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2007 Tony Kushner, Interviewed by Gitta Honegger Mother Courage and Her Children, directed by George C. Wolfe, Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, New York, 2006. Photo: Michal Daniel Romantic Pragmatist Tony...

... has termed it, a sublime stupidity rather than a Romantic one. Historicizing the sublime from its origins in Longinus through Kant to the present day, Dorsen argues that the sublime is an aesthetic of technocratic collapse, and a response to the limitations of rational understanding in the face...

... which inspired Buchner’s descendants, the playwrights of the absurd, to reject Beginning as a parody of Romantic conventional reason. Leonce and Lena literature, Leonce and Lena goes be- reflects the anarchy of existence and yond its...

... country, Rare is the West- ern critic of Romanticism who will mention Slowacki in studies of Byron, Hugo, or Heine - thus omitting a crucial Slavic re- sponse to that poetry. Rarer still are the non-Polish editors who will make room for Slowacki’s verse-dramas in their antholo- gies...

... from the drama of a romantic, ticism. The mode of Romanticism as it under- emotional (implicitly anti-intellectual) culture went disillusionment moved from pastoral to fastening onto methods that were essentially morbid; the same progression took place in the post-romantic...

... extensively considered in The Scenic Art are a moralist, a Norwegian, and a romantic. In typical fashion, James utilizes a succession of vantage points from which to pay homage to Dumas fils. The more he circumscribes Dumas by frames of reference, the more precise James becomes about...

... and the fixe of the girl is always the same: love and death. Kantor. In each of his spectacles, one of the characters is Death. In This is the romantic reduction of destiny. The Dead Class, the camp follower was death; in Wielopole, one of the A girl emerges from the pile, letting it collapse behind her...

... anarchy,1° now argued for the wither away and die out along with the dying heroic art of romantic melodrama as befitting economic system. the new revolutionary ethos. The old realistic f veryone, and especially...

... or gentry. The settings and the use made of exemplify it. Basov’s unmarried sis,ter the settings, the relationship of music and Kale‘riya seeks refuge in a kind of mood are strikingly similar. Varvara as neo-Romantic nature poetry distantly related the sensitive wife...

... of everyday being, we look to “Psychoanalysis is. . . an extension of the the theater as one place where self-involvement Romantic discovery of man’s consciousness of is legitimate, if not requisite; but we respond himself. Freud brings romanticism into modern most readily to plays...

... sentially romantic original, Bentleys play ef- Andreas Huyssen fectively addresses several contemporary political and psycho-social issues in a multi...

... itiner- “romantic” emotions, being doubly dis- himself seems aware of the artistic im- ary was supported by lhrgenev’s simple concerted when he discovered that passe he’s reached. There comes a time, and tight story line which doubled Odintsov’s feelings toward him were he wrote to Olga, when...

... unfamiliar (i.e., unpractical) ends. 130 And like Sherman they also confer mean• (which is classic) and monolog (which is ing (coherence) on them, often even with romantic), silence. Instead of "action ," the same dramatic, compulsive, and plot, etc. , surreal juxtapositions of "un• ritualistic...

... (cloth) s9.50. and Hans Chrislian Andnson and the Romantic Theatre. With Lise-Lone Feydeau, First to Last, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, Cornell, Ithaca, as Marker co-author, he recently completed a study of Ingmar Bergman NY, 1982 (cloth)i)19.95. as stage director (Cambridge...

... (cloth) s9.50. and Hans Chrislian Andnson and the Romantic Theatre. With Lise-Lone Feydeau, First to Last, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, Cornell, Ithaca, as Marker co-author, he recently completed a study of Ingmar Bergman NY, 1982 (cloth)i)19.95. as stage director (Cambridge...

..., rebellious anti-hero of revolt his recent hunt for a decent model while travel- to neo-romantic hero of nostalgia. ing in rural Spain. Handke revels in its brassy One element of this transition, of course, nostalgia, in pushing the buttons and selecting may be Handke’s age. At 52, he seems...

... comments, the anxiety over the emotional, effusive, gregarious - is the ninety-nine per cent of the people. The mailman’s perversely inconvenient essence of romanticism. For artistic ex- many joys, thrills and revelations that schedule. Her obsessive multiple revi- pression it needs a wide canvas...

... reinvented it, in a romantic way, as a vibrant passion. This is remarkable in an age where eclecticism and synthesis so often impose distancing. The dominant mood of postmodernism is irony, seemingly anti- thetical to passion. Lacroix managed to combine irony with passion. But if Lacroix...

... reinvented it, in a romantic way, as a vibrant passion. This is remarkable in an age where eclecticism and synthesis so often impose distancing. The dominant mood of postmodernism is irony, seemingly anti- thetical to passion. Lacroix managed to combine irony with passion. But if Lacroix...

... and I1 of The Sea Cull much one needs the p-ealistic-romantic these productions everywhere, and I’ll tell in Japan. room that Ibsen describes and how much...