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Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and others
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and others
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Authors and Contributors |
Edited by Margaret Herzfeld-Sander
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Series | German Library |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:320 |
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Category/Genre | Drama |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780826402974
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Classifications | Dewey:832.009 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Imprint |
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Publication Date |
1 December 1997 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.
Author Biography
Martin Julius Esslin (1918-2002) was a Hungarian-born English playwright and critic best known for coining the term "The Theatre of the Absurd" in his work of that name (1962).
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