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History and Drama: Essays in Honour of Bernhard Reitz (MUSE: Mainz University Studies in English, 9)

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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, ix + 372 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Cover shows moderate shelfwear, light creases to upper spine; price blacked out on the back. -- Several of the essays written in Bernhard Reitz's honour on the occasion of his 60th birthday consider the representation(s) of history in drama, others theorize on the past as the present or on history as a retro-scenario while still others look at the fictionalization of Shakespeare today. The range of perspectives on history and drama is astounding, with essays ranging from France on the English stage to Black American drama, from Sophocles' dramatic discourse to contemporary political drama, from historical pantomime to modern Scottish plays, from Strindberg to Contemporary British or American Theatre. This volume is not only focused on history and drama but also makes one important drama - W.E.B. Du Bois' Pageant The Star of Ethiopia - readily available for the first time. What makes this publication even more special is the number of original contributions from highly acclaimed British authors and playwrights. Howard Barker's 'Twelve Propo­sitions Already in Decay' and Michelene Wan­dor's 'History/Herstory' were especially written for History and Drama, while Julia Pascal's 'The London Patriots' is published here for the first time - in honour of Bernhard Reitz. -- Contents: 1. History ['Tis 60 Years Since: B.Reitz - Vita Brevis; 'Tis 14 Years Since: B.Reitz & CDE]; 2. Drama [12 Propositions Already in Decay / Howard Barker; London Patriots / Julia Pascal; History/Herstory: Some Memories of B.Reitz / Michelene Wandor; 'Greatest Event in the History of Colored Americans: W.E.B. Du Bois' Pageant The Star of Ethiopia: The Washington Version / Winfried Herget]; 3. On History and Drama [Omai, the Death of Captain Cook, and 'Historical' Pantomime / Christopher Balme; Republican Commonwealth or Monarchy? Edward Howard's Anti-feminist Comedy The Six Days Adventure, or the New Utopia, 1671 / Uwe Böker; Liz Lochhead's Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off: Performance, Poetry, and Iconoclastic Assessment in Contemporary Scottish Historical Drama / Raimund Borgmeier; German-Scots Literary Relations / Horst W. Drescher; Too Much Information! Glossing The Ancient Mariner / Maurice Elliott; French Classical Drama and its Reception in England: Characteristics of French Neo-Classical Theatre in the 17th Century / Peter Erlebach; Autobiographical Formation of Modern American Theatre: Strindberg and O'Neill / Alfred Hornung; Soundness of George III and Mad 18th-Century History / Christoph Houswitschka; Past is the Present: Stoppard's Historiographic Eye / Christopher Innes; John Arden & Margaretta D'Arcy: Failure of Communication with the Audience / Wolfgang J. Lippke; History as a Retro-Scenario: Short Note on Alan Bennett's The History Boys / Martin Middeke; "Reaching for the Ska": Hybrid Reconstruction of Black British History in the Musical The Big Life / Klaus Peter Müller; Re-Visiting Dramatic History: Strindberg and Contemporary British Theatre / Beate Neumeier; Religious Wars of France on the English Stage / Dietrich Rolle; Contemporary Political Drama and its Claim to Authenticity / Margarete Rubik; Performativity of Corporeal Pain in Sophocles' Dramatic Discourse / Elizabeth Sakellaridou; Nathaniel Hawthorne as Ironist Historiographer, with a Reading of The May-Pole of Merry Mount / James A. Sappenfield; Fictionalizing Shakespeare Today: Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Marina Warner's Indigo, Ian McEwan's Amsterdam / Thomas Michael Stein; Colored Museums: Cultural Segregation, Black American Drama, the Topdogs/Underdogs of African-American History / Eckart Voigts-Virchow; Passionate Hamlet / Günter Walch; Drama of Alan Judd's Fiction / Joseph Wiesenfarth; Old and New History in the English Drama of the 1970s/80s / Heiner Zimmermann]; B.Reitz: List of Publications; Tabula Gratulatoria. Nº de ref. del artículo: 007532

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