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Erika Fischer-Lichte - History of European Drama and Theatre - 9780415180603 - V9780415180603
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History of European Drama and Theatre

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Description for History of European Drama and Theatre Paperback. This major study reconstructs the vast history of European Drama from Greek tragedy through to 20th century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Translator(s): Riley, Jo. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 173 x 22. Weight in Grams: 700.

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, Molière
* 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, Büchner, and Nestroy
* the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, ... Read more

Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415180603
SKU
V9780415180603
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Erika Fischer-Lichte
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.

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