A classic of world literature, Goethe’s Faust is a philosophical and poetic drama full of satire, irony, humor, and tragedy. Martin Greenberg re-creates not only the text’s varied meter and rhyme but also its diverse tones and styles dram...Loe edasi...
The Investigation is a dramatic re-construction of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials, based on the actual evidence given. This testimony concerning Auschwitz and the atrocities which were enacted there has been edited and extracted by Peter Weiss into...Loe edasi...
Sari: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, ISBN-13: 9781501781438)
Theater of the Void discusses the radically new dramaturgy and theatrical aesthetics that have shaped German-language theater since the 1970s through the void. The book shows that the void is not mere emptiness but the very fiber of this theater tha...Loe edasi...
Sari: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, ISBN-13: 9781501781421)
Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed by threats of total annihilationwhether through nuclear technology or, more recently, global warmingGerman-language theater sinc...Loe edasi...
This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks a...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages incited artists to act out, fuel and resist the troubled construction of political legitimacy. It will be of interest to scholar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-May-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472056248)
Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the German stage has been at the forefront o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-May-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472076246)
Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the German stage has been at the forefront of discussion...Loe edasi...
This book is the first study of the prolific German filmmaker, performance artist and TV host Christoph Schlingensief (1960–2010) that identifies him as a practitioner of realism in the theatre and lays out how theatrical realism can offer an aest...Loe edasi...
This book examines the institutional contexts of dramaturgical practices in the changing political landscape of 20th century Germany. Through wide-ranging case studies, it discusses the way in which operationalised modes of action, legal frameworks a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781804290460)
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the...Loe edasi...
Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fencing texts, which were designed explicitly to teach tempo and judgement. This intervention in Shakespeare and Jonson...Loe edasi...
A meticulously researched book that collects twelve playscripts written by European Jews imprisoned in the Terezín ghetto during the Holocaust. The concentration camp and Jewish ghetto at Terezín, or Theresienstadt, in what is now the Czech Republ...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studien Und Texte Zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111333229)
Der dramatische Kanon der Germanistik ist vor allem eine Sammlung, die Texte enthält, deren literarische Ästhetik bewertet wird. Die historische Theaterpraxis nimmt dabei nur eine marginale Rolle ein. Die populären und nicht-kanonischen Einakter ......Loe edasi...
Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German exchange in the Sattelzeit. It offers new perspectives on the movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Aug-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111153131)
Die Forschung zur Tragödie der Klassischen Moderne ist nicht nur dünn, sie bewegt sich auch innerhalb überraschend konstanter Rezeptionsbahnen: Tragödie und Moderne seien unvereinbar, ihre Verbindung paradox und eine literaturwissenschaftliche Ausei...Loe edasi...
This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following:* Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; i...Loe edasi...
Lukas Erne, Florence Hazrat, Maria Shmygol, William Shakespeare
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Arden Shakespeare, ISBN-13: 9781350094758)
This book provides translations of early German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew. The introductory material situates these plays in their German context and discusses the insights they offer into the original...Loe edasi...
This book is a translation of German versions of both Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. The introductions to each play place these versions of Shakespeares plays in the German context, and offer insights into what we can learn about...Loe edasi...
