Playing for stakes
Playing for stakes: German-language drama in social context
edited by Anna K. Kuhn and Barbara D. Wright
Publisher: Oxford ; Berg, 1994.
ISBN: 0854969497
DDC: 832.009358
LCC: PT666
Notes:
"Essays in honor of Herbert Lederer."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction /Anna K. Kuhn and Barbara D. Wright -- 1.Modern Drama is
Alive, or The Duck Inside the Wolf /Harold Lenz -- 2.Naturalism and
Melodrama: Gerhart Hauptmann's Die Weber (The Weavers) /Henry Schmidt
-- 3.Expressionist Melodrama and the Search for New Forms of
Expression /Hanns Steger -- 4.Ghost Sonata and Strindberg's Influence
on Modern European Theater /Reinhold Grimm -- 5.Moving Pictures:
Photographs and Photographic Meaning in Karl Kraus's The Last Days of
Humanity /Leo A. Lensing -- 6.Theater as the Conscience of Society:
Erwin Piscator's "Interim Achievement" /Barbara Elling -- 7.New Woman
of the Twenties: Hoppla! Such is Life! and The Merry Vineyard
/Barbara D. Wright -- 8.Myth, Matriarchy, Mannerphantasie: Rereading
Grillparzcr's Libussa /Anna K. Kuhn -- 9.Johann Nestroy: The
Revolution on the Stage /Gerhard H. Weiss -- 10.Arthur Schnitzler's
The Way to the Pond: The Dramatic Summing Up /Donald G. Daviau --
11.Playwright as Ideologue: Franz Xaver Kroetz' Maria Magdalena /Erna
Neuse and Ralph Ley -- 12."Das geht net so weida": Herbert Berger's
"Nasty Plays" /Egon Schwartz -- 13.Elfriede Jelinek's Burgtheater:
Language as Exorcism /George W. Reinhardt.
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