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History Of European Drama And Theatre

Fischer-Lichte, E.

9780415180603 - History Of European Drama And Theatre
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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-Lichtes topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Moliere * the Italian commedia dellarte 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, ONeill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Muller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

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Author Fischer-Lichte, E.
ISBN/EAN 9780415180603
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Article 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-Lichtes topics include: * ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Moliere * the Italian commedia dellarte 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, ONeill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Muller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

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Author Fischer-Lichte, E.
ISBN/EAN 9780415180603