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Throughout his career the Austrian dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) turned repeatedly to Greek myth for his material. This book sets out to uncover his reasons for doing so. The results provide not only new insights into his work but a case-study in the reception of the Classics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Ranging widely over Hofmannsthal's achievements in drama, opera and the dance, this study is the first to provide a solid context for his 'Greek' works, both in the intellectual debates of his time - on such issues as psychoanalysis, feminism and the 'crisis of language' - and in contemporary performance practice.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Throughout his career the Austrian dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) turned repeatedly to Greek myth for his material. This book sets out to uncover his reasons for doing so. The results provide not only new insights into his work but a case-study in the reception of the Classics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Ranging widely over Hofmannsthal's achievements in drama, opera and the dance, this study is the first to provide a solid context for his 'Greek' works, both in the intellectual debates of his time - on such issues as psychoanalysis, feminism and the 'crisis of language' - and in contemporary performance practice.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Philip Marshall Ward studied at the universities of Oxford, London, Munich, Wales, and Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate. He currently works in the Research Service of the House of Commons Library. The author of several articles on literature, he is also a theatre and opera translator, whose adaptation of Wedekind's Franziska was premiered at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1998.
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"Bereichernd ist die Öffnung des Themas auf den West-Ost-Diskurs, den Ward im Werk H.s sehr gründlich aufarbeitet und als Basis der Antikedeutung perspektiviert [...] Ein anspruchvolles, wichtiges Buch!" (Mathias Mayer, Germanistik)