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Joan of Arc on the Stage and Her Sisters in Sublime Sanctity

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This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller’s 1801 romantic tragedy, (). The author elucidates Schiller’s appropriation of themes from Euripides’s Iphigenia plays, chiefly the quality of “sublime sanctity,” which transforms Joan’s image from a victim of fate to a warrior-prophet who changes history through sheer force of will.  Finding the best-known works of his time about her – Voltaire’s – utterly dissatisfying, Schiller set out to replace them. was a smashing success and inspired various subsequent treatments, including Verdi’s opera and a translation by the father of Russian Romanticism, Vasily Zhukovsky, on which Tchaikovsky based his opera ().  In turn, the book’s final chapter examines Shaw’s and finds that the Irish playwright’s vociferous complaints about Schiller’s “romantic flapdoodle” belie a surprising affinity for Schiller’s approach.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-27889-2 / 978-3030278892 / 9783030278892

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 08.11.2019

Seiten: 281

Autor(en): John Pendergast

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