Scandal on stage: European theater as moral trial

Introduction. Scandals as a non-event? ; Art as provocation? ; Freedom of art? ; What is scandal? ; A moral institution?

Overtures. The morality of robbers (Schiller's Die Räuber) ; The battle of Hernani (Hugo's Hernani)

Scanning the surface. The drama of schnaps and forceps (Hauptmann's Vor Sonnenaufgang) ; The drama of the savage god (Jarry's Ubu Roi)

Sounding the depths. Femme de siècle (Wilde/Strauss's Salome) ; Spring massacre (Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps)

Diagnosing the present. Dancing toward the abyss (Schnitzler's Reigen) ; Trouble in Mahogonny (Brecht/Weill's Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahogonny)

Overcoming the past. Defrocking the deputy (Hochhuth's Der Stellvertreter) ; The wreck of the Medusa (Henze's Das Floss der Medusa).

Introduction

Overtures

Scanning the surface

Sounding the depths

Diagnosing the present

Overcoming the past

Conclusion.