The Historical Experience in German Drama: From Gryphius to Brecht

by Alan Menhennet

A survey of 17th- to 20th-century German dramatic works that not only treat historical events but yield a historical experience.

In what is still the standard survey of German historical drama, Das deutsche Geschichtsdrama (1952), Friedrich Sengle understands historical drama as that in which objective history is blended with an idea that isthe basis of its dramatic coherence and force. This idea inevitably becomes the engine of a dramatic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132554
• ISBN13: 9781571132550
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"