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Images of Goethe Through Schiller's Egmont.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773566972
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Images of Goethe Through Schiller's EgmontLOC classification:
  • PT1915.E4 J64 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Egmont as Text: Scholarly Documentation -- 2 Egmont. Ein Trauerspiel in dreÿ Aufzügen -- 3 From Text to Performance -- 4 Reflections of the Text in Performance -- 5 Text and Image -- 6 Acting 1: Image on Stage -- 7 Acting 2: The Director's Image -- 8 Acting 3: Image in Society -- 9 Goethe and Egmont Today: Stage and Screen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Analysing a forgotten, unpublished performance script of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Goethe's play Egmont, David John examines the collaboration between the two playwrights as a means of addressing fundamental questions on the roles of text and performance. He shows that performance, not text, constitutes the essence of dramatic and theatrical experience.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Egmont as Text: Scholarly Documentation -- 2 Egmont. Ein Trauerspiel in dreÿ Aufzügen -- 3 From Text to Performance -- 4 Reflections of the Text in Performance -- 5 Text and Image -- 6 Acting 1: Image on Stage -- 7 Acting 2: The Director's Image -- 8 Acting 3: Image in Society -- 9 Goethe and Egmont Today: Stage and Screen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Analysing a forgotten, unpublished performance script of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Goethe's play Egmont, David John examines the collaboration between the two playwrights as a means of addressing fundamental questions on the roles of text and performance. He shows that performance, not text, constitutes the essence of dramatic and theatrical experience.

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