Reconsidering National Plays in Europe
This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and how does it represent its national identity? T
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Reconsidering National Plays in Europe
Suze van der Poll • Rob van der Zalm Editors
Reconsidering National Plays in Europe
Editors Suze van der Poll University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rob van der Zalm University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-75333-1 ISBN 978-3-319-75334-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75334-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018938801 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Alexander Mørk-Eidem’s staging of Peer Gynt, National Theatre. Photo: Gisle Bjørneby, 2014 Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
In memory of our former professors Egil Törnqvist (1932–2015) and Rob Erenstein (1939–2017)
About the Book
Though the concept ‘national play’ has since long been used to describe plays such as Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, Herman Heijerman’s The Good Hope and Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell, the term, different from for example ‘national theatre’, has not found its way into dictionaries. Neither has it been the object for research in the academic world. Taking a closer look at use of the word in descriptions in the aforementioned plays, shows it has been used to indicate that these plays not only have been rooted deeply in the cultural memory of respectively Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but— over the course of time—have been regarded as representations of the nation and its national identity. This volume seeks to frame the concept of a national play, and examines what qualifies as a national play and how it functions over the course of time in society, by providing an in-depth look
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