Max Reinhardt

Klappentext Max Reinhardt was among the first to establish the importance of the director in modern theatre. Zusammenfassung Max Reinhardt (1873 –1943), one of the major theatre figures of the twentieth century, was among the first to establish the importance of the director in modern theatre. In this book Professor Styan is concerned to illustrate Reinhardt's astonishing versatility as director of more than six hundred productions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An explosion of ideas in the theatre; 2. Beginnings in impressionistic realism Ghosts (1906); 3. Into symbolist drama Sumurun (1910), Venetian Night (1912); 4. Expressionist experiment The Ghost Sonata (1916), The Beggar (1917), Danton's Death (1916); 5. Reinhardt's Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1905), The Merchant of Venice (1905), Macbeth (1916); 6. A style for every play Faust (1909), The Miser (1917), Oedipus Rex (1910); 7. The baroque spectacles Everyman (1911), The Miracle (1911), The Salzburg Great Theatre of the World (1922); 8. Reinhardt, man of the theatre Playhouses, technical advances, repertory, rehearsal.

Product details

• Authors: J. L. Styan, John L. Styan
• Assisted by: Christopher Innes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.06.1982
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780521295048
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29504-8
• Pages: 188
• Series: Directors in Perspective; Directors in Perspective
• Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; Theatre Studies