190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 1767, more than a century before Germany was incorporated as a modern nation-state, the city of Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. What can it have meant for a German playhouse to have been a national theater, and what did that imply about the way these theaters operated? Michael Sosulski contends that the idea of German nationhood not only existed prior to the Napoleonic... Read more
Contents: General editor's preface; Preface; Introduction; Sitten und Sittlichkeit: Theater and nationhood in 18th-century Germany; Actors and acting in 18th-century Germany; Trained minds, disciplined bodies: Konrad Ekhof and the reform of the German actor; 'Mit täuschender wahrheit': acting, drama, and subjectivity in late 18th-century German theater; The shattered mirror; Epilogue: identity and the German national theater; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael J. Sosulski is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of German, Kalamazoo College, USA.
’Overall, Sosulski's book is original, fascinating, and engaging. It can only be hoped that it will contribute to an increasing interest in contextualization in German theater historiography.’ H-German ’... clearly written... a very readable account of the German theatre scene in the eighteenth century.’ Theatre Research International
