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History of European Drama and Theatre
Hardback
Main Details
Title |
History of European Drama and Theatre
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Erika Fischer-Lichte
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Translated by Jo Riley
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:416 | Dimensions(mm): Height 246,Width 174 |
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Category/Genre | Drama History of specific subjects |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780415180597
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Classifications | Dewey:809.2 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Imprint |
Routledge
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Publication Date |
29 November 2001 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to 20th 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 * the classicaal age of French theatre, Corneille, Racine and Moli?re *the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into 18th 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 20th century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Muller.
Author Biography
Erika Fischer-Lichte is university professor of theatre research at the Free University of Berlin, and president of the International Federation of Theatre Research. Her numerous publications include The Show and the Gaze of Theatre. A European Perspective, 1997.
Reviews"No other book currently available in English comes close to presenting the information contained here in as comprehensice a fashion...this is an excellent resource.." -"Library Journal, March 2002
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