... this brilliant study is destined to become a standard in the field. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
Matthew Wilson Smith is Associate Professor of German Studies and Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (Routledge, 2007) and the editor of Georg Büchner: The Major Works (Norton, 2011)