Landmarks in German Drama

The contributors to this volume treat fourteen plays of key significance in the history of German literature and show the way in which each dramatist has engaged with important social and theatrical issues of the age. Essays range from that on Lessing's Nathan der Weise (a key text in the history of 'tolerance' in Germany) to Jelinek's Krankheit oder moderne Frauen (a critique of theatrical representation, gender roles and the authority of the text), that is, from German classicism to the contemporary avant-garde. Each major movement in German literary history is represented, and the volume as a whole thus provides a partial history of German drama. The essays, all by specialists in the field, were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.

List of contents

Contents: H.B. Nisbet: Lessing, Nathan der Weise: A Landmark in the History of Tolerance - John Guthrie: Schiller, Kabale und Liebe - Roger Paulin: Schiller, Wallenstein - Martin Swales: Goethe, Faust I - F.J. Lamport: Kleist, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg - Andrew Webber: Büchner, Woyzeck - W.E. Yates: Grillparzer, Die Jüdin von Toledo - Mary Stewart: Hauptmann, Vor Sonnenaufgang - David Midgley: Wedekind, Erdgeist - Seán Allan: Kaiser, Von morgens bis mitternachts - Peter Hutchinson: Brecht, Die Dreigroschenoper - Ronald Speirs: Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Michael Minden: Weiss, Marat/Sade - Ben Morgan: Jelinek, Krankheit oder moderne Frauen.

About the author

The Editor: Peter Hutchinson is Senior Lecturer in German in the University of Cambridge and Vice-Master of Trinity Hall. He has published widely on German literature and has edited a number of texts and collections of essays.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter Hutchinson (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9783906766478
• ISBN: 978-3-906766-47-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 13 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature; Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in Ger; Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature; Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / British and Irish Studies in Ger
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies