Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe

Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe
Author: Gianina Druta
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2024-02-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3839470188

While Ibsen's plays were seldom performed in Romania in the first half of the 20th century, historical sources highlight his strong impact on the national theatre practice. To address this contradiction, Gianina Druta approaches the reception of Ibsen in the Romanian theatre in the period 1894-1947, combining Digital Humanities and theatre historiography. This investigation of the European theatre culture and the way in which the foreign acting and staging traditions influenced the Romanian Ibsenites provides new insights into mechanisms of aesthetic transmission. Thus, this study presents a European theatre landscape whose unpredictability and uniqueness cannot be confined to essentialist interpretations.

Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000

Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000
Author: David Blackbourn
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1631491849

Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany. With Germany in the World, award-winning historian David Blackbourn radically revises conventional narratives of German history, demonstrating the existence of a distinctly German presence in the world centuries before its unification—and revealing a national identity far more complicated than previously imagined. Blackbourn traces Germany’s evolution from the loosely bound Holy Roman Empire of 1500 to a sprawling colonial power to a twenty-first-century beacon of democracy. Viewed through a global lens, familiar landmarks of German history—the Reformation, the Revolution of 1848, the Nazi regime—are transformed, while others are unearthed and explored, as Blackbourn reveals Germany’s leading role in creating modern universities and its sinister involvement in slave-trade economies. A global history for a global age, Germany in the World is a bold and original account that upends the idea that a nation’s history should be written as though it took place entirely within that nation’s borders.

Europe on Stage

Europe on Stage
Author: Gunilla Anderman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1783192291

For any play originating in a different culture and society to be favourably received in English translation, timing and other factors of reception are often as important as the purely linguistic aspects. This book focuses on the problems of reception and translation into English encountered by European playwrights now regularly staged at British theatres, such as Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Brecht, Anouilh, Lorca and Pirandello, among others. Introduced by discussions highlighting different approaches to translation in general and the difficulties inherent in the translation of drama in particular, the book concludes by looking at what is lost in translation and the means by which adaptions and new versions may help to restore the balance.

National Theatres in a Changing Europe

National Theatres in a Changing Europe
Author: S. Wilmer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008-02-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230582915

Examining the ways in which national theatres have formed and evolved over time, this new collection highlights the difficulties these institutions encounter today, in an environment where nationalism and national identity are increasingly contested by global, transnational and local agendas, and where economic forces create conflicting demands.

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre

The Cambridge Guide to Theatre
Author: Martin Banham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1268
Release: 1995-09-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521434379

Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.

Drama

Drama
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1922
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett
Author: Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2011-10-13
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1441159746

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.