84 Pages
by
Routledge
84 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- Woyzeck
Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author’s death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first ‘modern’ drama in the history of European theatre. Its fragmentary form and critical socio-political content have had a lasting influence on artists, readers and audiences to this day.... Read more
1 Woyzeck the open wound
2 History, politics, tragedy
3 The fragmentary demand
4 Woyzeck in performance
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Biography
Karoline Gritzner is a Lecturer in Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK. Her research focuses on the interconnections between theatre and philosophy, and she is a core convenor of the research network Performance Philosophy.
