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Ideology and Archetypal Patterns in the Israeli Theatre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Freddie Rokem
Freddie Rokem
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Freddie RokcmLectures in the Department of Theatre Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
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From a contemporary Israeli perspective there is a clearly discernable connection between the concrete expressions of the national theatrical culture and some of the most comprehensive and fundamental ideological assumptions of this society. These assumptions are primarily based on its Jewish culture and religion and the national movement of Zionism as it has developed ideologically as well as practically during the last century, in particular through the establishment of the state of Israel. This article will examine the expression of some of these ideological trends and developments in the Hebrew and Israeli theatrical culture from the early 19208 until the mid-1970s.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 122 - 131
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1988

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Notes

1. Krye, N., Anatomy of Criticism, Atheneum, New York, 1967, 136–8.Google Scholar

2. For further discussions on some of these issues see Bennet, T., Formalism and Marxism, Methuen, London, 1979Google Scholar; Eagleton, T., Literary Theory, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983 and many more.Google Scholar

3. On borders and limits in the theatrical, fictional, world as an expression of existential issues see my book Theatrical Space in Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg: Public Forms of Privacy, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1986.Google Scholar

4. Haaretz, II 06 1948 (my translation).Google Scholar

5. Levin, C., Shitz, Tel Aviv, 1975, 82–3 (my translation).Google Scholar