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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"German drama"”.
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The German classics on the British stage : the reception of Goethe, Schiller and Kleist since 1945
… usually referred to as the great 'classics' of German drama, that is, works by Goethe, Schiller and Kleist. The reception of these plays for most of the pre-war period was unenthusiastic, and they were rarely staged before 1945. Even after this they were only gradually introduced onto the …
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Morality and Society in J.M.R. Lenz’s dramas and their resonance in the works of G. Büchner and B. Brecht
… ideas that have been important in shaping modern drama since the eighteenth century. It does this by examining the pioneering work of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–92) and tracing a line to Georg Büchner (1813–37) and Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956). It focuses on themes of morality and society …
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Brecht from page to mouth: a practical approach to Brecht's theatre on foot of an original translation of his Baallearning play fragments of 1930
… and thinking to English-speaking students of Drama who do not speak German. The second aim takes issue with the Brecht statement in the heading to this introduction: I would hope to show that it is possible for learning to be useful and pleasant. In order to demonstrate how a flamboyantly …
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Theatre on Trial: Staging Postwar Justice in the United States and Germany
This dissertation studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's …