Theaters of Error - Problems of Performance in German and French Enlightenment Theater (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)

This book offers provocative readings of canonical Enlightenment dramas that reflect and shape the period's changing understanding of error. With striking interdisciplinary connections to theater treatises as well as works from the philosophical, legal, and medical discourses, it tracks the relocation of error from the moral to the physical realm, a movement that begins with Lessing and continues through the turn of the nineteenth century. Featuring detailed analyses of Lessing's Miss Sara Sampson, Diderot's Le Fils naturel, Schiller's Die Rauber, and Kleist's Die Familie Schroffenstein alongside rich close readings of diverse primary sources, ranging from previously untranslated acting treatises by Sainte-Albine and Engel to texts from the German Archiv des Criminalrechts, this study introduces the reader to new Enlightenment sources and compellingly concludes that ultimately it is no longer evil, but rather bodily irregularities and mistakes in reading the body that become the driving principle of Enlightenment drama.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Release date:	2019
First published:	2018
Authors:	Pascale LaFountain
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	313
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-009539-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Promotions
LSN:	3-03-009539-8
Barcode:	9783030095390

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