| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2018
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| Host editors |
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S. van der Poll
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R. van der Zalm
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| Book title |
Reconsidering National Plays in Europe
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| ISBN |
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| ISBN (electronic) |
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| Pages (from-to) |
53-84
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| Number of pages |
32
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| Publisher |
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
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| Abstract |
Huwiler also takes Friedrich Schiller’ Theatre as a moral institution as a point of departure, but continues studying a play written in Schiller’s post-revolutionary period: Wilhelm Tell 1804). While examining two contrasting performance traditions—a critical and an affirmative one—, Huwiler shows how this German play, centring on a Swiss folk hero, is supremely apt for taking the temperature of the nation and reading off the changes to its self-image and how it has developed into the national play of Switzerland.
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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75334-8_3
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