In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.
The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes - blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life - is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes.
With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original...
In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal f...
'Global Ibsen' examines the different ways in which Ibsen's plays were & are performed in different cultures on five continents. It also examines the impact of such performances on the theatre, social life & politics of these cultures. It shows that performing Ibsen means performing multiple modernities.
'Global Ibsen' examines the different ways in which Ibsen's plays were & are performed in different cultures on five continents. It also examines the ...
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual concepts of identity.
Erika Fischer-Lichte's topics include:
* ancient Greek theatre * Shakespeare and Elizabethan theatre by Corneilli, Racine, Moliere * the Italian commedia dell'arte and its transformations into eighteenth-century drama * the German Enlightenment - Lessing,...
This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject o...
In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as:
Max Reinhardt's new people's theatre
the mass spectacles of post-revolutionary Russia
American Zionist pageants
the Olympic Games.
In offering both a performative and a semiotic...
In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in...
In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.
The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes - blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life - is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes.
With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original...
In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal f...
