History of European Drama and Theatre

This 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.

Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:

ancient Greek theatre

Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Moli�re

the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama

the German Enlightenment - Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, and Lenz

romanticism by Kleist, Byron, Shelley, Hugo, de Vigny, Musset, B�chner, and Nestroy

the turn of the century - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Stanislavski

the twentieth century - Craig, Meyerhold, Artaud, O'Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, M�ller.

Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this an invaluable source of information.