Author : William Edgar Yates
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis From Perinet to Jelinek by : William Edgar Yates
Download or read book From Perinet to Jelinek written by William Edgar Yates and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twenty essays, prefaced by a historical introduction, this volume surveys key features of the last two hundred years of theatre in what was the principal theatrical centre of central Europe until the First World War, relating key playwrights, plays, and institutional developments to the political and intellectual context that has helped shape them. The studies combine to give a picture of conservative and progressive movements in Viennese theatre from the aesthetic and political conservatism of the early nineteenth century to the innovations of the great period of Viennese modernism at the turn of the century, renewed conservatism in the inter-war years and the resurgence in the last two decades of the twentieth century of an outspokenly critical treatment of right-wing politics.