Prologue : Electra's transgressions
Reconceptualizing theatre and ritual
Re-inventing a people's theatre : Max Reinhardt's Theatre of the five thousand
Re-inventing ritual : the Olympic Games
Times of revolution, times of festival : the Soviet mass spectacles, 1917-1920
Producing the Volk community : the Thingspiel movement 1933-36
Towards the rebirth of a nation : American Zionist pageants 1932-1946
Bringing about a crisis
The Bacchae : dismembering the text
The rebirth of tragedy out of the chorus
Epilogue : renouncing sacrifice.
Theatre, sacrifice, ritual : exploring forms of political theatre by Erika Fischer-Lichte. ISBN 0415276764. Published by Routledge in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.