History of European Drama and Theatre Paperback / softback
by Erika Fischer-Lichte
Paperback / softback
Description
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity.
Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity. Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:* ancient Greek theatre* Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Molière* the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama* the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz* romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Büchner, and Nestroy* the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski* the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.
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- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:25/03/2004
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:25/03/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415180603