Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and others (German Library S., Vol 83)

by Margaret Herzfeld-Sander and Martin Esslin

Margaret Herzfeld-Sander (Editor)

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It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.
  • ISBN10 0826402976
  • ISBN13 9780826402974
  • Publish Date 1 December 1997
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 320
  • Language English