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- catalog abstract ""This is the richest and most detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. Dr Cecil Davies places particular emphasis on the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator, showing how these brilliant directors at times obscured and even distorted Toller's intentions. While Dr Davies sees the plays as eminently stageworthy, he shows that their primary value is found in Toller's use of language, both in prose and in verse. The neglected puppet-play The Scorned Lover's Revenge is viewed from a new perspective, both with regard to its language and its theme of sexuality, so critical to Toller's writings as a whole." "The Plays of Ernst Toller gives the reader a new understanding of why Toller was regarded as the most outstanding German dramatist of his generation, until his work was overshadowed by Bertolt Brecht. Dr Davies' exceptional study aims to restore Toller to his rightful place in the archives of theatre history and to encourage the revival of his plays on the contemporary stage."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9956500.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""This is the richest and most detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. Dr Cecil Davies places particular emphasis on the productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Erwin Piscator, showing how these brilliant directors at times obscured and even distorted Toller's intentions. While Dr Davies sees the plays as eminently stageworthy, he shows that their primary value is found in Toller's use of language, both in prose and in verse. The neglected puppet-play The Scorned Lover's Revenge is viewed from a new perspective, both with regard to its language and its theme of sexuality, so critical to Toller's writings as a whole." "The Plays of Ernst Toller gives the reader a new understanding of why Toller was regarded as the most outstanding German dramatist of his generation, until his work was overshadowed by Bertolt Brecht. Dr Davies' exceptional study aims to restore Toller to his rightful place in the archives of theatre history and to encourage the revival of his plays on the contemporary stage."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog extent "xii, 685 p., [6] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "3718656159 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "3718656159".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary theatre studies ; v. 10".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers,".
- catalog subject "35617116".
- catalog subject "PT2642.O65 Z62 1996".
- catalog subject "Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog title "The plays of Ernst Toller : a revaluation / Cecil Davies.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".