Oskar Panizza and the Love Council : A History of the Scandalous Play on Stage and in Court, with the Complete Text in English and a Biography of the Author

Brown, Peter D.G.

McFarland & Co Inc（2010/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 292 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786442737
• DDC分類 832.912

Full Description

In 1894, German society was introduced to The Love Council, a scandalous new play by the playwright Oskar Panizza. The carnivalesque satire, dealing with the first recorded outbreak of syphilis in 1495, portrays the scourge as divine punishment for the rampant sexual excesses in the Vatican court of the Pope of the time, the notorious Rodrigo Borgia. Panizza was imprisoned for one year on 93 counts of blasphemy, the harshest sentence ever given to an artist in the Second Empire. This book contains a detailed history of the play on stage and the court proceedings that led to Panizza's imprisonment. A new English translation of the play is included, as well as a biography of its avant-garde, modernist author.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     

Abbreviations     

Part I: The Play

1. Oskar Panizza's Legacy     

2. The Love Council: A Heavenly Tragedy in Five Acts, 1894     

3. Additions to the Second and Third Editions, 1896-1897     

Part II: The Author

4. The Early Decades, 1853-1894     

5. Downward Spiral, 1895-1921     

6. Panizza's Autobiographical Sketch, 1904     

Part III: The Trials

7. The 1895 Trial in Munich     

8. Defense and Judgment in the Matter of The Love Council     

9. Twentieth-Century Trials     

Part IV: Reception and Performance

10. M. G. Conrad's Evaluation, 1895     

11. Critical Responses to The Love Council, 1895-1897     

12. Performances around the World, 1962-2008     

Appendix A. Theatrical Productions of Das Liebeskonzil     

Appendix B. Chronology of Oskar Panizza's Life     

Bibliography     

Index