Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Goethe on the Theater
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe
Author: Lesley SharpePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521665605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Goethe provides a stimulating and accessible survey of this many-sided figure. The volume places Goethe in the context of the Germany and Europe of his lifetime. His literary work is covered in individual chapters on poetry, drama (with a separate chapter on Faust), prose fiction and autobiography. A wide-ranging survey of reception inside and outside Germany and an extensive guide to further reading round off this volume, which will appeal to students and specialists alike.
The First German Theatre (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Michael PattersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317266854
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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.
Theatre, Drama and Audience in Goethe's Germany
Author: W. H. BrufordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429774915
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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.
Goethe's Plays
Author: Johann Wolfgang von GoethePublisher: Frederick Ungar
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Goethe's Faust
Author: Hans SchultePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521194648
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centerpiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theater productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume explore the play's striking modernity within its theatrical framework. The chapters present new aspects such as the virtuality of Faust, the music drama, the modernization of evil, Faust's blindness, the gay Mephistopheles, classic beauty and horror as phantasmagoria, and Goethe's anticipation of modern science, economics and ecology. The book contains an illustrated section on Faust in modern performance, with contributions by renowned directors, critics and dramaturges, and a major interview with Peter Stein, director of the uncut 'millennium production' of Expo 2000.
The Faust Legend
Author: Sara Munson DeatsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847585X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.
Goethe's Major Plays
Author: Ronald PeacockPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719001963
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Revolutionary Theater and the Classical Heritage
Author: Michael David RichardsonPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039107247
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This study analyzes the work of three prominent proletarian-revolutionary dramatists at the end of the Weimar Republic. The work of Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Wolf, and Gustav von Wangenheim is looked at against the backdrop of debates among Marxist intellectuals and artists. Through a discussion of theatrical theory and close readings of individual plays, this work examines the authors' unique aesthetics and their enactment of a critical appropriation of the German literary heritage. It also investigates their attempts to transform the audience's relationship to the theatrical production from a passive-receptive to an active-critical one. This volume offers insights into larger questions of political and cultural continuity that characterized the Weimar and the postwar periods.
Music in German Immigrant Theater
Author: John KoegelPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580462154
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.