4. Zu Aeschylus

Metatheatre in Aeschylus’ Oresteia

Lionel Abel coined the word ‘metatheatre’ in his 1963 book, Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form, claiming he had discovered a new type of theatre, and cited Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the first metatheatrical play. Over the intervening decades, various scholars have pushed the incidence of the earliest metatheatrical play back beyond Hamlet. Richard Hornby, in his 1986 book, Drama, Metadrama,...

Sophrosyne in Aeschylus

Legal Action: The Trial As Theater in Aeschylus' Oresteia

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C...

Cersten Jakob: Von Prüfungsangst zu Prüfungsmut, von Lampenfieber zu Auftrittslust

1. The author of this book wants to reveal ways leading to more confidence and calmness in exams and while performing in front of small or larger audiences. A short introduction is followed by a definition of the term stage fright and a distinction between useful and obstructive types (stage fright). The complexity of the phenomena stage fright and exam anxiety is vividly visualised on the basi...

Wege zu VoIP - Konvergenztechnologie

VoIP ist zwar als Fachthema wegen der einhergehenden technischen Besonderheiten und in dem Bereich der Kommunikationsinfrastruktur bei Unternehmen in aller Munde, jedoch findet die VoIP-Technologie noch keinen flächendeckenden Einzug als Arbeitsmittel an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen. Neben der Tatsache, dass die meisten Hochschulen als Landesbetrieb an das Haushaltsrecht de...