The Theater of Heiner Muller: Revised and Enlarged Edition
"Pleasing and easy to read...the book includes 15 excellent production photographs. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." Choice "...Kalb's close readings of the MUller oeuvre are incisive and refreshingly free of critical rhetoric..." Michael Bloom, American Theatre "This book will not only inspire theater scholars to take a closer look at MUller, it could also pave the way for a more engaged confrontation with MUller's work in the English-speaking world--not only among theater directors, actors, translators, and publishers, but for readers who recognize the significance of the most important German playwright since Brecht." Holger Teschke, Theater "The author of this excellent study is a recipient of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism (1991) and author of a previous volume on Beckett as well as a collection of essays titled Free Admissions: Collected Theater Writings. Jonathan Kalb presents a thoughtful and personally intimate analysis of the life and theater of Heiner MUller by comparing his production with that of various predecessors. An extraordinarily insightful, sensitive book, a tour de force of knowledge of modern drama and its critics, The Theater of Heiner MUller is an indispensible aid in unlocking the riddles and merits of the man and his contemporaries." Erlis Wickersham, World Literature Today--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.