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Theatre and Holy Script
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The interrelationships between myth, religion, and theatre are explored by investigating the unique treatment of theatricality, ritual and performance in the Holy Scriptures, and in other sacred traditions. Traditional Jewish Halachic oppositions towards theatre are discussed, as well as the way theatre was harnessed to promote Christian values.
| Hardback ISBN: | 978-1-898723-53-0 |
| Hardback Price: | £45.00 / $65.00 |
| Release Date: | April 1999 |
| Page Extent / Format: | 272 pp. / 229 x 152 mm |
| Illustrated: | No |
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Shimon Levy
The Essays
1 Holy Space and Representational Place in
the Tenth Century
Michal Kobialka
2 "Action is Literal": Ritual Typology and "Ritual
Arts"
Irina Rudakova
3 Are the Rock Carvings of the North the
First Sources of Theatre in Europe?
Jon Nygaard
4 Strategies of the Heterogeneous in Ritual
and Performance: Mallarmé's "Livre" or the Rite of the Book
Helga Finter
5 The Sacramental Aesthetics on Stage: The
Cathedral Plays of Dorothy L. Sayers
Mary A. Donahoe
6 The Son of the Dove and the Jewish Waiter
Yehuda Moraly
7 "Born Losers Comparing Notes" – Bible Quotation
and Drama Construction in George
Tabori's Plays
Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer
8 The Liturgical Theatre of the Holocaust
on the Israeli Stage – Holy Scripture, Myth, Ritual
Gad Kaynar
9 Religious Theatre in a Totalitarian Atheistic
State: The Polish Experience
Kazimierz Braun
10 Dziady: A Mystery Play in the Modern Polish
Theatre
Ewa Wchocka
11 A Divinity which Shapes Our Ends: Greek
Comedy in a Secular Age
J. Michael Walton
12 Thespis and Moses: The Jews and the Ancient Greek
Theatre
Katharine B. Free
13 Secular Rites in Jules Dassin's Film A
Dream of Passion
Hadassa Shannie
14 Secular Definitions of 'Ritual': The Rocky Horror
Phenomenon
Susan Purdie
15 Sermons in Stones
Robert Cheesmond
16 Masks and Disguises as an Expression of
Anarchy in the Jewish Festival Theatre
Ahuva Belkin
17 Political Assassination, Sacrifice and
Theatrical Re-enactment in Julius Caesar
Hanna Scolnicov
18 "Our teachers break our hearts": Bruria,
Theatre Company of Jerusalem
Dan Urian
19 Myth and the Drama of the Soul
Andrew Kennedy
Contributors
Index
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