Essays on German Theater: Lessing, Brecht, Durrenmatt, and Others

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826402976
• ISBN13: 9780826402974
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"