Michael J. Sosulski

Theater and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Germany (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1767, Hamburg chartered the first Deutsches Nationaltheater. Michael Sosulski connects the performance of body discipline by professional actors, soldiers, and schoolchildren to the growing interest in German national identity, long before Germany's incorporation as a nation-state. Through the efforts of literary intellectuals and advocates, including G.E. Lessing and Friedrich Schiller, the Nationaltheater emerged as an ideal space in which to imagine the nation, because for Germans, nationality emerged as a performed identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351880152
• Artikelnr.: 47955163

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Sosulski is Assistant Professor of German in the Department of German, Kalamazoo College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: General editor's preface
Preface
Introduction
Sitten und Sittlichkeit: Theater and nationhood in 18th-century Germany
Actors and acting in 18th-century Germany
Trained minds, disciplined bodies: Konrad Ekhof and the reform of the German actor
'Mit tÿuschender wahrheit': acting, drama, and subjectivity in late 18th-century German theater
The shattered mirror
Epilogue: identity and the German national theater
Bibliography
Index.