History of European Drama and Theatre

<p>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.</p><p>Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:</p><p>* ancient Greek theatre<br>* Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli Racine Molière<br>* the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama<br>* the German Enlightenment - Lessing Schiller Goethe and Lenz<br>* romanticism by Kleist Byron Shelley Hugo de Vigny Musset Büchner and Nestroy<br>* the turn of the century - Ibsen Strindberg Chekhov Stanislavski<br>* the twentieth century - Craig Meyerhold Artaud O'Neill Pirandello Brecht Beckett Müller.</p><p>Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.</p>