Theatre, sacrifice, ritual exploring forms of political theatre - Fischer-Lichte, Erika (London Routledge, 2005)
Prologue : Electra's transgressions -- Reconceptualizing theatre and ritual -- Re-inventing a people's theatre :Max Reinhardt's Theatre of the five thousand -- Re-inventing ritual : the Olympic Games -- Times of revolution, times of festival : the Soviet mass spectacles,1917-1920 -- Producing the Volk community : the Thingspiel movement 1933-36 -- Towards the rebirth of a nation : American Zionist pageants 1932-1946 -- Bringing about a crisis -- The Bacchae : dismembering the text -- The rebirth of tragedy out of the chorus -- Epilogue : renouncing sacrifice.
Keywords: Pageants; Theater