Images of Goethe through Schiller's Egmont
By: David G. John.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805
Description: Analysing a forgotten, unpublished performance script of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Goethe's play Egmont, David John examines the collaboration between the two playwrights as a means of addressing fundamental questions on the roles of text and performance. He shows that performance, not text, constitutes the essence of dramatic and theatrical experience.

In addition to presenting a comprehensive analysis of the play and a discussion of Egmont's reception from its first appearance to the present (including productions on both stage and screen), John provides an in-depth performance analysis based on the theories of Alter, Burns, Carson, Fischer-Lichte, Goffman, Pavis, and Schechner. The book includes the complete Mannheim manuscript (M372), critically edited and published as a performance text for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-319) and index.