Isbn: 9780723102113 - from Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, viii + 384 pages, NOT ex-library. Good+. Clean, bright, untanned interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A short corner crease to a portion of leaves. Minor age speckling on upper outer page edges. Unclipped dust jacket with edge-nicks, small areas of sticker damage on the upper spine, rubbing, a couple of creases. -- Drawing on two decades of Löb's journal articles and newly written material, this monograph traces the evolution of German drama from Enlightenment comedy to early-twentieth-century naturalism. Individual studies offer close readings of major plays by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich von Kleist, Georg Büchner, Friedrich Hebbel, and Gerhart Hauptmann - while interludes discuss theatrical theory, staging practice and the shifting socio-political contexts that shaped each author's dramaturgy. Löb emphasises continuities of moral inquiry and dramatic form - especially the tension between Enlightenment reason and later explorations of psyche and social conflict - showing how innovations in verse style, character psychology and stage realism prepared the ground for naturalist and expressionist theatre. The volume thus functions both as a sequence of self-contained studies and as a synthetic survey of 150 years of German dramatic literature. -- "A collection of Löb's critical essays spanning the arc of German drama from the Enlightenment to Naturalism, this volume traces major thematic and stylistic developments from Lessing through Schiller to Kleist, Hebbel, Büchner, and culminating in Hauptmann. Bringing together close readings with historical contextualization, Löb examines questions of form, staging, and ideas - reason and humanity in the Enlightenment, the tensions of Sturm und Drang and Weimar Classicism, and the social critique of late‑nineteenth‑century theater - offering a synoptic view of how German drama evolved between roughly 1750 and 1900.".…

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