The historical experience in German drama
Subtitle: from Gryphius to Brecht
By: Alan Menhennet
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Historical drama, German -- History and criticism
Description: "Alan Menhennet identifies and analyzes examples of German drama that are historical not only in terms of the provenance of the material, but also in that, while remaining dramatic in nature, they do convey a historical experience. He provides a critical survey of such plays extending from the seventeenth century to the twentieth, in the contexts of literary history, the philosophy of history, and German history from the Thirty Years' War to the Second World War.

Major figures treated include Gryphius, Lessing, Schiller, Goethe, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Schnitzler, and Brecht. There is no competing work in English."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and index