Naturalism in the Recent German Drama
Author : Alfred Stoeckius
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1903
Category : German drama
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Stoeckius
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1903
Category : German drama
ISBN :
Author : Raleigh Whitinger
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571131072
First book in English devoted to Johannes Schlaf, the 19th-century German playwright, bringing fresh insights to the whole movement of German naturalist drama. This is the first book in English on the German playwright Johannes Schlaf (1862-1941), whose involvement in 'consistent realism' and modern theatre in the 1890s provides an insight into the origins and development of German naturalist drama. Schlaf's main contributions to this movement were with Die Familie Selicke (1890), on which he collaborated with Arno Holz, and Meister Oelze (1892), works which show his innovative talents. The author considers these works in the context of the experimental prose sketches which Schlaf worked on with Holz after 1888, and of the realist and naturalist dramas of Hebbel, Ibsen, Hauptmann, and Sudermann; he brings out their growing concern with trapped women and victimised children, as well as their critical focus on the problems of traditional poetry.
Author : John Osborne
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789057550058
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama, a revised and updated version of his The Naturalist Drama in Germany, now widely acknowledged as the standard introduction to the subject. The debates to which he contributed, and in some cases initiated, on Naturalism in the German theatre, Naturalist theory in Germany, and the development of the Naturalist movement to the contemporary Social Democrat movement, have remained central issues. This revised edition preserves the structure and approach of the original, including its emphasis on the early dramas of Hauptmann, while taking full account of subsequent scholarship which provides the context in which this Naturalist playwright's work can be placed.
Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1979-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521225762
In this impressively wide-ranging study of all drama written in German in the period 1945-1977, Christopher Innes' aims are to identify the concerns and perceptions of dramatists working in a specific and unique social context and period and to analyse the major theatrical forms they developed or adapted to express their experience, to trace the writers' literary antecedents, their 'tradition' and to explore the critical issues raised by each stylistic innovation. Professor Innes has organized his discussion around the main forms of theatre - epic, documentary, absurdist and more traditional forms. Redefining these conceptual labels as he progresses, he analyses, in a critical and informed way, the work on the page and the stage of all the major playwrights. This study, which is complemented by photographs of key productions and accompanied by translations for all quotations, will be of particular interest to teachers and students of drama and German, as well as to a wider theatre-going public.
Author : Claude Schumacher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 1996-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521230148
This fourth volume in the series Theatre in Europe charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political upheaval.
Author : Michael Minden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0745657257
This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodisation of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of international cultural impact. It explains, for instance, how specifically German and Austrian conditions shaped major contributions to European literary culture such as Romanticism and the ‘language scepticism’ of the early twentieth century. From the First World War until reunification in 1990, Germany’s defining experiences have been ones of catastrophe. The book provides a compelling overview of the different ways in which German literature responded to historical disaster. They are, first, Modernism (the ‘Literature of Negation’), second, the literature of totalitarian regimes (Third Reich and German Democratic Republic), and third the various creative strategies and evasions of the capitalist democratic multi-medial cultures of the Weimar and Federal Republics. The volume achieves a balance between textual analysis and cultural theory that gives it value as an introductory reference source and as an original study and as such will be essential reading for students and scholars alike.
Author : John Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1135293597
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it compare with its counterparts in other European countries? These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama, a revised and updated version of his The Naturalist Drama in Germany, now widely acknowledged as the standard introduction to the subject. The debates to which he contributed, and in some cases initiated, on Naturalism in the German theatre, Naturalist theory in Germany, and the development of the Naturalist movement to the contemporary Social Democrat movement, have remained central issues. This revised edition preserves the structure and approach of the original, including its emphasis on the early dramas of Hauptmann, while taking full account of subsequent scholarship which provides the context in which this Naturalist playwright's work can be placed.
Author : Peter Bauland
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 26,76 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801481543
Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.
Author : Robert William Seton-Watson
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Europe
ISBN :