Postdramatik : Transformationen des epischen Theaters bei Peter Handke Heiner Müller Elfriede Jelinek und Rainald Goetz This study investigates the history of post dramatic literature between 1966 and 1995. It reveals the ways that post dramatic writing styles lent themselves productively to international modern theater continued to develop dynamically and came to form a tradition of its own. Extensive reviews of post dramatic trends and forms are interspersed with close textual analyses including examples from the theatrical stage