The Heibergs and the Theater
Between Vaudeville, Romantic Comedy and National Drama
Distributed for Museum Tusculanum Press
269 pages
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10 halftones
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5 1/2 x 9
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© 2012
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Table of Contents
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Heibergs and the Theater
Jon Stewart and Klaus Müller-Wille
Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the Theater: In Oehlenschläger’s Limelight
Finn Hauberg Mortensen
I. Theater and Politics
An Artist Among Rebels? Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the Political Turn of the Public Sphere
Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
Ghostly Monarchies—Paradoxical Constitutions of the Political in Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s Royal Dramas
Klaus Müller-Wille
The Danish Way to Fame and Power? Johan Ludvig Heiberg, Thorvaldsen and the Popularity of Art
Wolfgang Behschnitt
II. Theater and Philosophy
The Opera Hater? Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the Musical Theater
Joachim Grage
Heiberg’s Conception of Speculative Drama and the Crisis of the Age: Martensen’s Analysis of Fata Morgana
Jon Stewart
Kierkegaard’s Hidden Satire on Heiberg’s Poetics of the Vaudeville in Either/Or and Repetition
Mads Sohl Jessen
III. Theater and the Economy of Gender
Nina’s Madness: The Economy of Sentimentality in Heiberg’s Nina
Gunilla Hermansson
Theater and Modernity: Thomasine Gyllembourg’s Novella Near and Far
Joachim Schiedermair
The Ethics of Performance in Johanne Luise Heiberg’s Autobiographical Reflections
Karin Sanders
Index of Persons
Index of Subjects
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History: European History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Dramatic Works
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