| The Theater of Heiner Muller Revised and Enl Edition Contributor(s): Kalb, Jonathan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879109653 ISBN-13: 9780879109653 Publisher: Limelight OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2004 Annotation: The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive English-language study of the work of Heiner Muller, widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's spiritual heir and as one of the most important German playwrights of the twentieth century. "Kalb's quest to try and penetrate some of the surfaces of what he calls this 'glacially infuriating writer' is engrossing, and he negotiates his own ambivalences and reservations about Muller as theatre-maker and man with both honesty and adroitness...As a piece of scholarship [this] is a breathtaking tour de force." -Mary Luckhurst, New Theatre Quarterly |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Drama - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 832.914 |
| LCCN: 2001050281 |
| Series: Limelight |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.04" W x 8.96" (0.91 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive English-language study of the work of Heiner M ller, widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's spiritual heir and as one of the most important German playwrights of the twentieth century. "Kalb's quest to try and penetrate some of the surfaces of what he calls this 'glacially infuriating writer' is engrossing, and he negotiates his own ambivalences and reservations about M ller as theatre-maker and man with both honesty and adroitness...As a piece of scholarship this is a breathtaking tour de force." - Mary Luckhurst, New Theatre Quarterly |