The First German Theatre: Schiller, Goethe, Kleist and Buchner in Performance

Author : "Michael Patterson (Vocations and Ordinands, USA)"

Paperback

Published : Thursday 18 January 2018

ISBN : 9781138639690

Price : €39.75

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 Buchner 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 Buchner's Woyzeck. This title will be of interest to students of theatre and German literature.

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