Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage

Author: Heiner Müller
Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
This best-selling volume contains several of the German author's most controversial dramas, in which he radically questions how culture, myth, art, and social relations create history. Includes: "Hamletmachine, Correction, The Task, Quartet, Despoiled Shore," and "Gundling's Life." One of the most original theatrical minds of our time, Muller, who resided in East Berlin before his death in 1995, was a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson.

Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage

Author: Heiner Müller
Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 152

The Theater of Heiner Mller

Author: Jonathan Kalb
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879109653
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive English-language study of the work of Heiner Muller, widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's spiritual heir and as one of the most important German playwrights of the twentieth century. "Kalb's quest to try and penetrate some of the surfaces of what he calls this 'glacially infuriating writer' is engrossing, and he negotiates his own ambivalences and reservations about Muller as theatre-maker and man with both honesty and adroitness...As a piece of scholarship [this] is a breathtaking tour de force." -Mary Luckhurst, New Theatre Quarterly

Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater

Author: Hellmut H. Rennert
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820444031
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

The Text in Play

Author: Robert Baker-White
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753811
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Many modern playwrights have dramatized the process of theatrical creation within their plays. In doing so, they have disregarded the "do not disturb" sign on the rehearsal room door, and have opened the art of theater to a particular kind of scrutiny. This scrutiny is unusual given the long-standing tradition of secrecy that surrounds theatrical rehearsal. Viewing modern drama generally as a drama that juxtaposes authority and freedom, and viewing contemporary criticism as essentially an extended debate on the issue of meaning's closure, this study invokes the critical perspectives M. M. Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, and Bertolt Brecht to create a general theory of rehearsal practice that differentiates it from the practice of performance. Working with notions of textual authority explored in a variety of critical contexts, this volume attempts to explore the theoretical ramifications of metatheatrical representations of rehearsal.

Heiner Müller After Shakespeare

Author: Heiner Müller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555541521
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A volume of plays of the world-renowned author, Heiner Müller.

Explosion of a Memory

Author: Heiner Müller
Publisher: Paj Publications
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
The most important German playwright since Brecht.-John Rockwell, New York Times

Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama

Author: Christine Olga Kiebuzinska
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838638958
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Kiebuzinska, who teaches modern drama, comparative literature, and film at Virginia Tech, considers intertextuality in modern drama. In nine essays, she examines the connections between the works of modern playwrights such as Kundera, Jelinek, and Hampton and the texts of earlier writers such as Did

Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice

Author: Megan Alrutz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230364101
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
Through a collection of original essays and case studies, this innovative book explores theory as an accessible, although complex, tool for theatre practitioners and students. These chapters invite readers to (re)imagine theory as a site of possibility or framework that can shape theatre making, emerge from practice, and foster new ways of seeing, creating, and reflecting. Focusing on the productive tensions and issues that surround creative practice and intellectual processes, the contributing authors present central concepts and questions that frame the role of theory in the theatre. Ultimately, this diverse and exciting collection offers inspiring ideas, raises new questions, and introduces ways to build theoretically-minded, dynamic production work.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Margreta de Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658812
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.