Shakespeare on the German Stage: 1586-1914, Vol. 1
This is an illustrated history of the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays on the German stage from the English Comedians in the late sixteenth century to the First World War. Simon Williams argues that the vision of Shakespeare first articulated by critics of Sturm und Drang and romanticism was only realised in practice with the productions of Max Reinhardt in the early twentieth century. The book focuses on the classical period of German literature and theatre, when...
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This is an illustrated history of the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays on the German stage from the English Comedians in the late sixteenth century to the First World War.
List of illustrations; Preface1. The literature of Shakespeare in eighteenth-century Germany; 2. Seventeenth-century beginnings: the English Comedians; 3. Shakespeare and the mid-eighteenth-century theatre; 4. Shakespeare introduced: Schroder's Hamlet and other adaptations; 5. Shakespeare at the Weimar Court Theatre; 6. Shakespeare at the Vienna Burgtheater; 7. Shakespeare and the German actor; 8. Romantic legacy: Shakespeare and spectacle; 9. Romantic legacy: the Shakespeare-stage; 10. Shakespeare at the Deutsches Theater: the 'Colossus' restored?; Appendix: Shakespeare on the German stage, a timeline, 1586-1914 Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
