Heiner Müller's The Hamletmachine
I'm good Hamlet gi'me a cause for griefAt first glance, readers of The Hamletmachine (1979) could be forgiven for wondering whether it is actually a play at all: it opens with a montage of texts that are not ascribed to a character, there is no vestige of a plot, and the whole piece lasts a total of ten pages.Yet, Heiner Müller's play regularly features in theatres' repertoires and is frequently staged by university theatre departments. In four short chapters, David Barnett unpicks the complexities of The Hamletmachine's writing and frames its author as an experimental, politically committed writer who confronts the shortcomings of his age. I…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-27474-2
- EAN: 9781317274742
- Produktnummer: 20929884
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 72 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'802 KB
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David Barnett is a Professor of Theatre at the University of York.
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