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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822127603321

Autore

Rozik Eli

Titolo

Jewish drama & theatre : from rabbinical intolerance to secular liberalism / / Eli Rozik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eastbourne, : Sussex Academic Press, 2013

ISBN

1-78284-096-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

792.089/924

Soggetti

Jewish drama - History and criticism

Creation - Biblical teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : dramatic and theatrical creativity -- Tangential Jewish drama. Jewish theatre and ritual origin -- The Book of Job as Greek tragedy -- Ezekiel's Exagoge -- The binding of Isaac in theatre -- Fernando de Rojas' La Celestina -- Felipe Godinez' The Queen Esther -- Leone de' Sommi's A comedy of betrothal -- Advent of Yiddish Theatre. Adoption of theatre despite ritual -- Sephardi roots of Jewish parody -- The nature of carnival -- The purim-shpil -- The purim-rabbi -- A tribute to Yiddish theatre -- The languages of the Jews and Jewish theatre -- The Jewish nature of Israeli theatre. Sacred narratives in secular contexts -- Actualization in the Israeli theatre -- Rina Yerushalmi's Jephthah's daughter -- Sisera's mother and the Trojan women -- Rina Yerushalmi's Woyzeck 91 --  Nissim Aloni's The American princess -- Hanoch Levin's Sufferings of Job.