The Genius of the German Theatre
Author | : Brenda Jackson |
Publisher | : Signet |
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Release | : 1968-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780451607454 |
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Author | : Brenda Jackson |
Publisher | : Signet |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1968-03-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780451607454 |
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Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Martin Esslin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English drama |
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German plays from the mid-20th century.
Author | : David F. Kuhns |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521583403 |
German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage considers the powerfully stylized, anti-realistic styles of acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. This book describes three distinct Expressionist acting styles, all of which in their own ways attempted to show how symbolic stage performance could be a powerful rhetorical resource for a culture struggling to come to terms with the crises of historical change. The examination of Expressionist script and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of acting itself.
Author | : Jonathan Bate |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780195128239 |
The Genius of Shakespeare is a new kind of biography: a biography of Shakespeare's talent and reputation, beyond the limits of his actual life. Part One explores the origins and development of his works, Part Two traces their effects on succeeding generations, and demonstrates how Shakespeare came to be regarded as the supreme dramatist.
Author | : W. H. Bruford |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429774915 |
First published in 1950. This present work examines the political, economic and social condition of Germany on literature, particular drama, in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries. The author explores drama both in its passive and active relations with the life of the time and with the theatre, the medium without the aid of which the possibilities of the drama as an art form remain only half realised. This title will be of interest to students of literature, drama, and theatre studies.
Author | : Michael Patterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1317266846 |
First published in 1990. The book surveys of the development of German theatre from a market sideshow into an important element of cultural life and political expression. It examines Schiller as ‘theatre poet’ at Mannheim, Goethe’s work as director of the court theatre at Weimar, and then traces the rapid commercial decline that made it difficult for Kleist and impossible for Büchner to see their plays staged in their own lifetime. Four representative texts are analysed: Schiller’s The Robbers, Goethe’s Iphigenia on Tauris, Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg, and Büchner’s Woyzeck. This title will be of interest to students of theatre and German literature.
Author | : Peter Watson |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 918 |
Release | : 2010-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 085720324X |
From the end of the Baroque age and the death of Bach in 1750 to the rise of Hitler in 1933, Germany was transformed from a poor relation among western nations into a dominant intellectual and cultural force more influential than France, Britain, Italy, Holland, and the United States. In the early decades of the 20th century, German artists, writers, philosophers, scientists, and engineers were leading their freshly-unified country to new and undreamed of heights, and by 1933, they had won more Nobel prizes than anyone else and more than the British and Americans combined. But this genius was cut down in its prime with the rise and subsequent fall of Adolf Hitler and his fascist Third Reich-a legacy of evil that has overshadowed the nation's contributions ever since. Yet how did the Germans achieve their pre-eminence beginning in the mid-18th century? In this fascinating cultural history, Peter Watson goes back through time to explore the origins of the German genius, how it flourished and shaped our lives, and, most importantly, to reveal how it continues to shape our world. As he convincingly demonstarates, while we may hold other European cultures in higher esteem, it was German thinking-from Bach to Nietzsche to Freud-that actually shaped modern America and Britain in ways that resonate today.
Author | : Louis Riccoboni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1741 |
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Author | : Michael Patterson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1317217934 |
First published in 1981, this book represents the first work in English to give a comprehensive account of the revolutionary developments in German theatre from the decline of Naturalism through the Expressionist upheaval to the political theatre of Piscator and Brecht. Early productions of Kaiser’s From Morning till Midnight and Toller’s Transfiguration are presented as examples of Expressionism. A thorough analysis of Piscator’s Hoppla, Such is Life! And Brecht’s Man show the similarities and differences in political theatre. In addition, elements of stage-craft are examined — illustrated with tabulated information, an extensive chronology, and photographs and designs of productions.