Twentieth Century European Drama

Author : Brian Docherty
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century European Drama written by Brian Docherty and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415180603
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of European Drama and Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Stanislavski * the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Müller. Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.

Author : Alexander Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136155007
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage written by Alexander Feldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.

Author : Brian Docherty
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349230731
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century European Drama written by Brian Docherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-11-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

Author : Christopher Murray
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-Century Irish Drama written by Christopher Murray and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an overview of Irish theatre, read in the light of Ireland's self-definition. Mediating between history and its relations with politics and art, it attempts to do justice to the enabling and mirroring preoccupations of Irish drama.

Author : Jane House
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231071185
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Italian Drama: The first fifty years written by Jane House and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Twentieth-Century Italian Drama covers the period spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to that immediately following World War II, displaying the rich breadth of Italian theater in the modern age, from the comedic legacy carried on by such writers as Eduardo De Filippo to the delicate tragedy of playwrights like Federigo Tozzi.Included are seven full-length plays, five one-act plays, one variety sketch, and three futurist sintesi (sketches). Brief introductions preceding each play contextualize the piece within the various movements in Italian theater, and biographies of the editors and translators appear at the end of the volume. An extensive bibliography offers many suggestions for further reading in English.The playwrights included are Gabriele D'Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ettore Petrolini, Raffaele Viviani, Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo, Federigo Tozzi, Massimo Bontempelli, Achille Campanile, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Eduardo De Filippo, and Ugo Betti.

Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134917064X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Drama written by Simon Trussler and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of information on all the main events, individuals, political groupings and issues of the 20th century. It provides a guide to current thinking on important historical topics and personalities within the period, and offers a guide to further reading.

Author : M. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137370386
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Theatre in Twentieth-Century Europe written by M. Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the connection between politics and theatre by looking at the works and lives of Shaw, Brecht, Sartre, and Ionesco, providing a cultural history detailing the changing role of political theatre in twentieth-century Europe.

Author : John Smart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521795630
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century British Drama written by John Smart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Looking back on 20th century British drama from its' historical, social and political perspective enables the reader to set each play in a broader context. Contents include a selection of play extracts from well-known authors including Harold Brighouse, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

Author : Ib Bondebjerg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030604969
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Twentieth Century Europe written by Ib Bondebjerg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative study of historical television genres in Europe, with a special focus on Germany and Great Britain and their way of narrating twentieth century European history. The book analyses our common European past and memory through central historical television narratives. Each chapter looks at how historical TV genres, fictional and documentary, have dealt with the most salient and defining periods, events and changes in the twentieth century— an age of extremes. Bondebjerg offers unique theoretical and analytical insight into the role of television in mediating and shaping the past. The book explores television’s creation of transnational cultural encounters across Europe in relation to our common and national past. The book addresses how television has influenced our understanding of history, collective memory and public debate over the twentieth century. It is fundamentally a book about the importance of the past in present day Europe and the centrality of media for transnational understanding.