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> Introduction; Chapter 1 Ritual theatre; Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae; Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion; Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis; Chapter 5 Theatre of the ‘new’ man;