History of European drama and theatre
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History of European drama and theatre
Routledge, 2004
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Geschichte des Dramas
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"First published in German in 1990 as Geschichte des Dramas (vols 1 & 2) by A. Francke Verlag, Tübingen and Basel"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-371) and indexes
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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, Moliere
* 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, Buchner, and Nestroy
* the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski
* the twentieth 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Ritual theatre
- Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae
- Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion
- Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis
- Chapter 5 Theatre of the 'new' man
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