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description: 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.Gotthold Ephraim Lessing --The seventeenth letter concerning the newest literature --Gotthold Ephraim Lessing --From The Hamburg Dramaturgy --Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz --From Notes on the Theater --Friedrich Schiller --The stage considered as a moral institution --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --From Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe --From Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe --August Wilhelm von Schlegel --From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature --Franz Grillparzer --On the nature of the drama --A letter concerning fate --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --From the Philosophy of Fine Art --Georg Buchner --Letter to his family --Friedrich Hebbel --A word about the theater --Richard Wagner --From The Art Work of the Future --Karl Marx --Letter to Ferdinand Lassalle --Friedrich Engels --Letter to Ferdinand Lassalle --Gustav Freytag --From Technique of the Drama --Friedrich Nietzsche --From The Birth of Tragedy --Arno Holz --From Evolution of the Drama --Gerhart Hauptmann --Thoughts on drama --Georg Lukács --The sociology of modern drama --Carl Sternheim --Thoughts concerning the nature of drama --Georg Kaiser --The dramatic poet and the man in the audience --Man in the tunnel, or: the poet and the play --Hugo von Hofmannsthal --The theater of the new --Ernst Toller --Remarks concerning German post-war drama --Erwin Piscator --The Berlin production of Paquet's Flags --From Outline of a Sociological Dramaturgy --Ödön von Horvath --User's instructions --Bertolt Brecht --Shouldn't we abolish aesthetics? --Theatre for pleasure or theatre for instruciton --The street scene --On experimental theatre --Can the present-day world be reproduced by means of theatre? --Arnold Hauser --The origins of domestic drama --Friedrich Dürrenmatt --Friedrich Schiller --Wolfgang Hildesheimer --On the theater of the absurd --Rolf Hochhuth --Should the theater portray the contemporary world? --Max Frisch --The author and the theater --From a correspondence with Walter Höllerer --Peter Weiss --Notes on the contemporary theater --Conversation with Peter Weiss --Peter Hacks --Interview --Peter Handke --Street-theater and theater-theater --Martin Walser --A further daydream about the theater --Heinar Kipphardt --Theater and reality --Tankred Dorst --A conversation with Rudolf Vogel --Heiner Müller --Fratzer +/- Keuner --Reflections on post-modernism --Franz Xaver Kroetz --I don't write about things I despise.
language: English
title: Essays on German Theater
titlecomplete: Essays on German Theater (German Library)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group