“IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS” BY GOETHE AND THE GERMANY THEATRE IN THE “NACHWENDE” EPOCH

Abstract

The article analyzes stage design and intermedial discourse based on transformations of the plot about Iphigenia from the late 20th–21st centuries, which stand out vividly thanks to comparing with Goethe’s drama “Iphigenia in Tauris”. It contributes upon productive comprehension how constant components of myth are perceived in the social and cultural context of the United Germany. The reception and interpretation of the image of Iphigenia are traced from its embodiment in the precedent text of Goethe, which represents the ideas of the Weimar Classicism era, through the process of historical turning point to the Germany modern literature and theatre. It allows filling the ancient mythological image with relevant content and modulating its perception not only by a reader, but also by a viewer. Art of the 20th – early 21st centuries has been becoming more visual. Appearance of new synthetic media arts, new forms of their interaction requires new analytical approaches to understanding them in diverse national models of pictures of the world within the multiculturalism epoch.