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History of European Drama and Theatre Paperback - 2004
by Fischer-Lichte, Erika (Author)/ Riley, Jo (Translated by)
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- Title History of European Drama and Theatre
- Author Fischer-Lichte, Erika (Author)/ Riley, Jo (Translated by)
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0415180600
- ISBN 9780415180603 / 0415180600
- Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
- Dimensions 9.72 x 6.8 x 0.93 in (24.69 x 17.27 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects European drama - History and criticism, Theater - Europe - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001034969
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.200
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Summary
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 Moliere *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.
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In early spring, when the sea was navigable again after the stormy winter months, the citizens of Athens gathered in the theatre to celebrate the Great, or City Dionysia, the largest and most important state (polis) Dionysian festival.
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- Library Journal, 03/01/2002, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 03/01/2002, Page 101