Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914

By Peter Jelavich

Book Overview

This is the first cultural exploration of playwriting, directing, acting, and theater architecture in fin-de-si?cle Munich. Peter Jelavich examines the commercial, political, and cultural tensions that fostered modernism's artistic revolt against the classical and realistic modes of nineteenth-century drama.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674588355
• ISBN13: 9780674588356
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.5"