| History of European Drama and Theatre Contributor(s): Fischer-Lichte, Erika (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415180600 ISBN-13: 9780415180603 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to 20th 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, Moliere * The Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into 18th century drama * The German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz * Romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, Buchner, and Nestroy * The turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski * The 20th century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Muller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 809.200 |
| LCCN: 2001034969 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.8" W x 9.72" (1.65 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information. |
