The “Advent of the New Rule”. An Oresteia (1947) in Prague and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110773729-005" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110773729-005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The “Advent of the New Rule”. An Oresteia (1947) in Prague and the Epistemological Limits of Archivalia
Original language description
This chapter investigates the limits of archival research for the study of the performance reception of ancient drama with reference to Karel Dostal’s production of The Oresteia (1947) in post-war Czechoslovakia. My research showcases how documents held in different archives can enter into dialogue with each other and shine a light on previously opaque facets of this long-ago performance, but at times it also testifies to the contradictory and lacunose nature of archival material. The documents that survive about Dostal’s Oresteia help us uncover the inner working of Czechoslovakia’s most influential theatre institution at a turning point in its history and the power games that the country’s political apparatus played with the National Theatre’s management. A seemingly mediocre production and the time it spent in the theatre repertoire can thus be re-accessed as a taster of how the Communist Party would manage the National Theatre once it gained power.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-21053S" target="_blank" >GA20-21053S: Theatre director Karel Dostal: from modernism to classicism</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Classical Reception. New Challenges in a Changing World
ISBN
978-3-11-077338-5
Number of pages of the result
32
Pages from-to
87-118
Number of pages of the book
419
Publisher name
De Gruyter
Place of publication
Berlin
UT code for WoS chapter
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