TY - BOOK AU - Fischer-Lichte,Erika TI - Theatre, sacrifice, ritual: exploring forms of political theatre SN - 0415276764 AV - PN3203 F528 T 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Pageants KW - Theater N1 - 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; HKBU library; YT2025 M09 ER -