416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
416 Pages
by
Routledge
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This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity.
Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:
* ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Ritual theatre; Chapter 2 Theatrum vitae humanae; Chapter 3 The rise of the middle classes and the theatre of illusion; Chapter 4 Dramatising the identity crisis; Chapter 5 Theatre of the ‘new’ man;
Biography
Erika Fischer-Lichte is university professor of theatre research at the Free University of Berlin, and president of the International Federation of Theatre Research. Her numerous publications include The Show and the Gaze of Theatre. A European Perspective, 1997.
