The Theater of Heiner Muller

by Jonathan Kalb

Overview

(Limelight). The revised and enlarged edition of the first comprehensive English-language study of the work of Heiner Muller, widely regarded as Bertolt Brecht's spiritual heir and as one of the most important German playwrights of the twentieth century. "Kalb's quest to try and penetrate some of the surfaces of what he calls this 'glacially infuriating writer' is engrossing, and he negotiates his own ambivalences and reservations about Muller as theatre-maker and man with both honesty and adroitness...As a piece of scholarship this is a breathtaking tour de force." Mary Luckhurst, New Theatre Quarterly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879109653
Publisher:	Limelight Editions
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Series:	Limelight
Edition description:	Revised and Enlarged Edition
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Chronology; Reference Note; List of illustrations; 1. Müller as Müller: Introduction; 2. Müller as Brecht (The Horatian); 3. Müller as Kleist (Volokolamsk Highway, Gundlings Life, Frederick of Prussia, Lessing's Sleep, Dream Scream, Mauser); 4. Müller as Mayakovsky (The Scab, The Correction, The Resettler); 5. Müller as Shakespeare (Macbeth, Anatomy of Titus, Fall of Rome); 6. Müller as Artaud (Hamletmachine); 7. Müller as Genet (The Mission); 8. Müller as Wagner (Germania, Death in Berlin); 9. Müller as Beckett (Description of a Picture); 10. Müller as Proteus (Quartet); Notes; Bibliography; Index.