Synopses & Reviews
It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Martin Esslin
Introduction: Margaret Herzfeld-Sander GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSINGThe Seventeenth Letter Concerning the Newest LiteratureFrom
The Hamburg Dramaturgy JAKOB MICHAEL REINHOLD LENZFrom
Notes on the Theater FRIEDRICH SCHILLERThe Stage Considered as a Moral Institution JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFrom
Wilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipFrom Eckermann's
Conversations with Goethe AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGELFrom
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature FRANZ GRILLPARZEROn the Nature of the DramaA Letter Concerning Fate GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGELFrom
The Philosophy of Fine Art GEORG BUCHNERLetter to His Family FRIEDRICH HEBBELA Word about the Theater RICHARD WAGNERFrom
The Art Work of the Future KARL MARXLetter to Ferdinand Lassalle FRIEDRICH ENGELSLetter to Ferdinand Lassalle GUSTAV FREYTAGFrom
Technique of the Drama FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHEFrom
The Birth of Tragedy ARNO HOLZFrom
Evolution of the Drama GERHART HAUPTMANNThoughts on Drama GEORG LUKACSThe Sociology of Modern Drama CARL STERNHEIMThoughts Concerning the Nature of Drama GEORG KAISERThe Dramatic Poet and the Man in the AudienceMan in the Tunnel, or: The Poet and the Play HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHALThe Theater of the New ERNST TOLLERRemarks Concerning German Post-War Drama ERWIN PISCATORThe Berlin Production of Paquet's
FlagsFrom
Outline of a Sociological Dramaturgy ODON VON HORVATHUser's Instructions BERTOLT BRECHTShouldn't We Abolish Aesthetics?Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for InstructionThe Street SceneOn Experimental TheatreCan the Present-day World Be Reproduced by Means of Theatre? ARNOLD HAUSERThe Origins of Domestic Drama FRIEDRICH DURRENMATTFriedrich Schiller WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMEROn the Theater of the Absurd ROLF HOCHHUTHShould the Theater Portray the Contemporary World? MAX FRISCHThe Author and the TheaterFrom a Correspondence with Walter Hollerer PETER WEISSNotes on the Contemporary TheaterConversation with Peter Weiss PETER HACKSInterview PETER HANDKEStreet-Theater and Theater-Theater MARTIN WALSERA Further Daydream about the Theater HEINAR KIPPHARDTTheater and Reality TANKRED DORSTA Conversation with Rudolf Vogel HEINER MULLERFatzer +/- KeunerReflections on Post-Modernism FRANZ XAVER KROETZI don't write about things I despise.