{"product_id":"history-of-european-drama-and-theatre-9780415180603","title":"History of European Drama and Theatre","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* ancient Greek theatre\u003cbr\u003e* Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, MoliÃre\u003cbr\u003e* the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama\u003cbr\u003e* the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz\u003cbr\u003e* romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, BÃchner, and Nestroy\u003cbr\u003e* the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski\u003cbr\u003e* the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, MÃller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction; 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;","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018114269527,"sku":"9780415180603","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415180603.jpg?v=1750775674","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-of-european-drama-and-theatre-9780415180603","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}