History of European Drama and Theatre PDF
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, 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.
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- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:01/06/2002
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- ISBN:9780203450888
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:01/06/2002
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- ISBN:9780203450888