Reconsidering National Plays in Europe

1. Introduction; Suze van der Poll & Rob van der Zalm.- 2. Schiller's Die Räuber : "Der Ort der Geschichte ist Teutschland"; Kati Röttger.- 3. Schiller's Wilhelm Tell : The National Play of Switzerland?; Elke Huwiler.- 4. Bánk Bán : The Hungarian National Play; Krisztina Lajosi.- 5. August Strindberg's Gustav Vasa - Sweden's National Drama?; Egil Törnqvist & Erik Mattsson.- 6. Peer Gynt - Norway's National Play; Suze van der Poll.- 7. A (Dutch) Tale of the Sea. The Good Hope by Herman Heijermans; Rob van der Zalm.- 8. Molière's Tartuffe and French National Identity: Reconfiguring the King, the People and the Church; Matthijs Engelberts.- 9. Theatre as a Moral Institution: 20th-Century Ireland; Joep Leerssen.- 10. Epilogue; Suze van der Poll & Rob van der Zalm.