History of European Drama and Theatre

Name: History of European Drama and Theatre
Brand: Routledge
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By Erika Fischer-Lichte

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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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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 408
Release Date:: 2001-11-29
Publication Date:: 2004-03-25
Publisher:: Routledge
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0415180600
ISBN13:: 9780415180603
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 701 g
Height:: 170 cm
Width:: 244 cm
Thickness:: 22 cm

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