This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greektragedy through to twentiethcentury theatre focusing on the subject ofidentity. Throu... » 

This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greektragedy through to twentiethcentury theatre focusing on the subject ofidentity. Throughout history drama has performed and represented politicalreligious national ethnic classrelated gendered and individual conceptsof identity.Erika FischerLichtes topics include ancient Greek theatre Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli Racine MoliAre the Italian commedia dellarte and its transformations into eighteenthcentury drama the German Enlightenment Lessing Schiller Goethe and Lenz romanticism by Kleist Byron Shelley Hugo de Vigny Musset BA14chnerand Nestroy the turn of the century Ibsen Strindberg Chekhov Stanislavski the twentieth century Craig Meyerhold Artaud ONeill PirandelloBrecht Beckett MA14ller.Anyone interested in theatre throughout history and today will find this aninvaluable source of information. «