Büchner’s Woyzeck: The Disintegration of the Self

  1. The Historical Woyzeck and the History of Woyzeck
    1. Johann Christian Woyzeck
    2. The Insanity Defense
    3. Manuscript and Versions
    4. First Performance: 1913
  1. Anti-Aristotelian Drama: Character and Tragedy
    1. Aristotle’s Poetics and the Requirements of Drama
    2. Woyzeck as Hero and Anti-Hero
    3. Marie as Anti-Heroine
    4. Andres
    5. Drum Major, Officer and Doctor
  1. Anti-Enlightenment Sideshow: The Carnival Scenes (3 and 4)
    1. "The March of Civilization"
    2. "The Astronomical Horse"
    3. "The monkey is already a soldier..."
    4. "Eyes so black...like trying to see down a well..."
  1. "Like an open razor...": Woyzeck and the Officer (6 and 9)
    1. "Eternity means eternity..."
    2. "A good man..."
    3. "Morals, that’s when people are moral..."
    4. "There’s no virtue in you..."
  1. Marie’s Trials
    1. Marie and the Drum Major
    2. Marie’s Repentance
    3. The Grandmother’s Story (Scene 21, p.133)
    4. Marie’s Murder
  1. Woyzeck’s Death
    1. "It’s blood!"
    2. "There’s a stain!"
    3. "A good murder, a proper murder..."
  1. Alban Berg’s Wozzeck
    1. Atonal Opera
    2. World War I Intervenes
    3. The Anti-Hero Sings