Erwin Piscator

Piscator, Erwin - pĭskäˈtôr, 1893–1966, German theatrical director and producer who, with Bertolt Brecht, was the foremost exponent of epic theater, a genre that emphasizes the sociopolitical context rather than the emotional content or aesthetics of the play. He worked experimentally in Berlin after 1919. As director of the Volksbühne (1924–27) Read More...

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The Theatre of Erwin Piscator
by John Willett. 195 pgs.

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The Theatre of Erwin Piscator

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List of Illustrations

Sources of Illustrations

Chronology

1: Setting the Scene

2: Approaches to a Political Theatre (1919-1927)

3: The Piscator Companies (1927-1931)

4: The Eight Productions

5: The Political Theatre

6: The Soviet Experience (1931-1936)

7: The Paris Interlude (1936-1938)

8: New York and the Dramatic Workshop (1939-1951)

9: The Long Road Home (1951-1966)

10: Legacy of a Political Theatre

Notes

Bibliography and Acknowledgments

Index
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The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski (Chap. 10 "Piscator in Berlin")
by Edward Braun. 191 pgs.

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The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski

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List of Illustrations

Introduction

1: The Meiningen Theatre

2: Antoine and the Theatre Libre

3: The Symbolist Theatre

4: Alfred Jarry

5: Stanislavsky and Chekhov

6: Edward Gordon Craig

7: Max Reinhardt in Germany and Austria

8: Meyerhold - the First Five Years

9: Meyerhold - Theatre as Propaganda

10: Piscator in Berlin

11: Brecht's Formative Years

12: Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty

13: Grotowski's Laboratory Theatre

Afterword

Notes

Index
3 .

Brecht: A Collection of Critical Essays ("Piscator's Political Theater" begins on p. 86)
by Peter Demetz. 186 pgs.

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Introduction

Bert Brecht

From the Testimony of Berthold Brecht

The Poet Bertolt Brecht

On Brecht's In the Swamp, A Man's a Man, and Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Contemporary Theater and Aesthetic Distance

Piscator's Political Theater

On the Artistic Originality of Bertolt Brecht's Drama

Brecht's Dramatic Theory

Brecht's Galileo

Brecht's Split Characters and His Sense of the Tragic

Mother Courage and Her Children

On Brecht's: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Brecht: The Music

Brecht's Language and Its Sources

Chronology of Important Dates

Selected Bibliography

Notes on the Editor and Contributors
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Terrorism and Modern Drama (Chap. 4 "Aspects of Terrorism in the Work of Piscator and Brecht")
by John Orr, Dragan Klaic. 192 pgs.

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Terrorism and Drama: Introduction

NOTES

PART I History and Context

1: Terror, the Modern State and the Dramatic Imagination

2: Terrorism as Social Drama and Dramatic Form

3: The Inverted World of Spectacle: Social and Political Responses to Terrorism

NOTES

4: Aspects of Terrorism in the Work of Piscator and Brecht

5: Individualist and Collectivist Models of Terrorism in German Expressionist Drama

PART II Contemporary Drama

6: State Terror and Dramatic Countermeasures

7: Utopianism and Terror in Contemporary Drama: The Plays of Dušan Jovanovi ć

8: Politics and Terror in the Plays of Howard Brenton

9: Images of Terrorism in Contemporary British Drama: Unlocking the World

10: The Bomb in the Baby Carriage: Women and Terrorism in Contemporary Drama

Index
5 .

The Theatre of the Weimar Republic (Discussion of Erwin Piscator in multiple chapters)
by John Willett. 353 pgs.

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Part I: The Road to Weimar

1: The German Nation and Its Stages

2: Bases for a Modern Stage, 1890-1914

3: Reinhardt, the Bridge to the 1920s

Part II: Stages of a Republican Theatre

4: Revolution and the Establishment of Expressionism

5: Expressionism Runs Out of Steam

6: The Twenties Strike Gold

7: Politics Take Command

Part III: Weimar and After

8: The Continuity of Talent

9: Parting of the Ways

10: Weimar in Retrospect

Part IV: Basic Details of the Weimar Theatre and Its Aftermath

Note on the Appendices

Appendix 1 the Main German-Language Theatres

Appendix 2 Thirty Years of German-Language Theatre

Appendix 3 Some Relevant Films of the Period

Appendix 4 Select List of Radio and Gramophone Recordings

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Theatrical Directors: A Biographical Dictionary ("Erwin Friedrich Piscator" begins on p. 311)
by John W. Frick, Stephen M. Vallillo. 574 pgs.

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""This book should be impressive to aspiring theater arts students as well as to those who simply love theater. Highly recommended for most collections." Library Journal

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Preface

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D

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F

G

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L

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Appendix A: Chronological List of Directors

Appendix B: Directors Listed by Country in Which Primary Work Was Done

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Play, Film, and Television Title Index

About the Advisors and Contributors
7 .

Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism ("Expressionism to Piscator" begins on p. 457)
by Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck. 1300 pgs.

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This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature. Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading. An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature. Special Features * Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines * In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present * Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading * Single index of authors, terms, topics

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Acknowledgements

Preface

I: Introduction

1: Literature

Further Reading

Additional Works Cited

2: Criticism

Further Reading

II: Literature and History

3: Medieval Literature and the Medieval World

Further Reading

4: The Renaissance

5: Augustanism

Additional Works Cited

6: Romanticism

7: Modernism

Further Reading

8: Postmodernism

III: Poetry

9: Genre

Further Reading

10: Poetry

Additional Works Cited

11: Epic and Romance

12: Lyric

Further Reading

13: Narrative Verse

Further Reading

14: Women and the Poetic Tradition: The Oppressor’s Language

15: Medieval Poetry

Additional Works Cited

16: Renaissance Poetry

Additional Works Cited

17: ‘Augustan’ Poetry

18: Romantic Poetry

Further Reading

19: Victorian Poetry

20: The French Symbolists

Further Reading

21: Modern Poetry

22: British Poetry since 1945: Poetry and the Historical Moment

23: Contemporary American Poetry

IV: Drama

24: Stagecraft

Further Reading

25: Tragedy

Further Reading

26: Comedy

Further Reading

27: Shakespeare

Additional Works Cited

28: Medieval Drama

29: Renaissance Drama

Further Reading

30: Restoration Theatre

Further Reading

31: The Origins of the Modern British Stage

Further Reading

32: Theories of Modern Drama

33: The Theatre of the Absurd

Further Reading

34: Theatre and Politics

Further Reading

35: Feminist Theatre

V: The Novel

36: Modes of Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Further Reading

37: Feminine Fictions

Further Reading

38: The Historical Novel

39: The Nineteenth-Century Social Novel in England

Further Reading

40: The Realist Novel: The European Context

Further Reading

41: Realism and the English Novel

Additional Works Cited

42: American Romance

Further Reading

43: Formalism and the Novel: Henry James

Further Reading

44: The Novel and Modern Criticism

Further Reading

45: The Modernist Novel in the Twentieth Century

46: British Fiction since 1930

47: Contemporary Fiction

Further Reading

VI: Criticism

48: Biblical Hermeneutics

Further Reading

49: Neo-Classical Criticism

Further Reading

Additional Works Cited

50: The Romantic Critical Tradition

51: Great Traditions: The Logic of the Canon

Further Reading

52: Marxist Criticism

Further Reading

53: The New Criticism

Further Reading

54: Structuralism and Post-Structuralism: from the Centre to the Margin

Further Reading

55: Feminist Literary Criticism: ‘New Colours and Shadows’

Further Reading

56: Psychoanalytic Criticism

57: Deconstruction

Further Reading

58: New Historicism

Further Reading

VII: Production and Reception

59: Production and Reception of the Literary Book

60: The Printed Book

61: Literacy

62: Publishing before 1800

Further Reading

63: Publishing since 1800

Further Reading

64: British Periodicals and Reading Publics

Further Reading

65: Libraries and the Reading Public

66: Censorship

67: The Bibliographic Record

68: The Institutionalization of Literature: The University

Additional Works Cited

VIII: Contexts

69: Literature and the History of Ideas

70: Literature and the Bible

Further Reading

71: Literature and the Classics

Additional Works Cited

72: Folk Literature

Further Reading

73: Literature and the Visual Arts

74: Literature and Music

Further Reading

75: Literature and Landscape

Further Reading

76: The Sentimental Ethic

77: The Gothic

Further Reading

78: Aestheticism

79: Literature and Science

80: Literature and Language

81: Culture and Popular Culture: The Politics of Photopoetry

IX: Perspectives

82: New English Literatures

83: African Literature in English

Further Reading

84: The African-American Literary Tradition

85: Australian Literature and the British Tradition

86: Canadian Literature

Further Reading

87: Indian Literature in English

88: New Zealand and Pacific Literature

Further Reading

89: West Indian Literature

Additional Works Cited

90: Western Literature in Modern China

X: Afterword

W(H)Ither ‘English’?

Further Reading

The Contributors

Index
8 .

German Cultural Studies: An Introduction (Discussion of Erwin Piscator begins on p. 79)
by Rob Burns. 380 pgs.

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List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

1: ROBIN LENMAN, JOHN OSBORNE, EDA SAGARRA Imperial Germany: Towards the Commercialization of Culture

2: Weimar Culture: The Birth of Modernism

3: Culture and the Organization of National Socialist Ideology 1933 to 1945

4: The Failed Socialist Experiment: Culture in the GDR

5: Reconstruction and Integration: The Culture of West German Stabilization 1945 to 1968

6: The Federal Republic 1968 to 1990: From the Industrial Society to the Culture Society

7: Unification and its Aftermath: The Challenge of History

Chronology of Events

Index
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Group 47: The Reflected Intellect (Chap. 5 "Documentary the Playwright as Preacher and Teacher")
by Siegfried Mandel, Harry T. Moore. 232 pgs.

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Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments and Aims

1: A Call to Letters and an Invitation to the Electric Chair

2: Fiction the Normality of Schizophrenia

3: Poetry Acts of Memory and Provocation

4: The Radio Play Life, a Permanently Unanswered Question

5: Documentary the Playwright as Preacher and Teacher

6: The Stage: of Dialectics and Bedlam

Postscript

Appendix

Selected Bibliography

Index

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