{"product_id":"theatre-as-alternative-historical-narrative-von-cornelia-faasen","title":"Theatre as Alternative Historical Narrative.","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book I examine the way in which  fictionalised and dramatised narratives in theatre  have the potential to create significant alternative  narratives that can potentially be regarded as a  crucial part of history writing.  This is done  through a critical analysis of three historically  orientated dramatic texts, Ubu and the Truth  Commission by Jane Taylor (1998), Copenhagen by  Michael Frayn (1998) and Ghetto by Joshua Sobol  (1984). I investigate how these playwrights  narrativised history by fictionalising and  dramatising events and people of historical  importance, and how each of these plays individually  contributes to the debate on narrative in  historiographical discourse. Drawing on Hayden  White''s theory on the poetic and narrative nature of  history writing, as represented by his definitive  work, Metahistory, I explore different theories and  works on the philosophy of history to determine the  precise nature of narrative itself as well as the  historical work.  The theatrical texts singled out  demonstrate that these alternative narratives   function as a discourse of multi-levelled stories  making a contribution to the practice of  historiography itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838321851\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA study of three plays.: Ubu and the Truth Commission,Copenhagen and Ghetto\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838321851","offer_id":39498900602973,"sku":"9783838321851","price":59.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/50ed942a-c4ee-4966-92f2-62e165d9bda9.jpg?v=1757656460","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/theatre-as-alternative-historical-narrative-von-cornelia-faasen","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}