(P/B) 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-Lichte's topics include:
- ancient Greek theatre,
- Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Moliere,
- the Italian commedia dell'arte 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, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Muller.
Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information. (From the publisher)