Wilhelm Hortmann

Shakespeare on the German Stage

Volume 2, the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. It follows the earlier volume by Simon Williams on the reception of Shakespeare during the previous 300 years (Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914). Hortmann concentrates on the two most important and fruitful periods: the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies, when the German theatre was revitalised by a stormy marriage of avant-garde art and revolutionary politics. A section by Maik Hamburger covers developments in the theatres of the German Democratic Republic. Hortmann focuses on the most representative and colourful directors and actors, describing and illustrating individual productions as examples of particular trends or movements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 920g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121682
• ISBN-10: 052112168X
• Artikelnr.: 27065454

Autorenporträt

Wilhelm Hortmann, geboren 1929, Studium in Köln und New York, Professor emeritus der Universität Duisburg, lehrte Englische Literaturwissenschaft an den Universitäten Frankfurt, Duisburg und Santa Barbara. Seine bevorzugten Untersuchungsgebiete sind die Schnittpunkte von Kultur und Politik, insbesondere die Verbindung von Theater und Zeitgeschichte.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Old traditions and new beginnings; 2. Shakespeare theatre in the Weimar Republic (1919-1933); 3. Shakespeare in the Third Reich (1933-1945); 4. Shakespeare on the postwar stage - continuity or a fresh start?; 5. Transvaluations: Shakespeare and the revolution of the West German stage (1964-1979); 6. Reconstruction, deconstruction, postmodernism: rediscovering Shakespeare in the eighties; 7. Theatre under socialism: Shakespeare in East Germany; 8. The end of an epoch - and some new faces.

Rezensionen

Review of the hardback: 'The survey offered by Hortmann and Hamburger is of the highest standard.' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement