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Theaters of Error: Problems of Performance in German and French Enlightenment Theater

by Pascale Lafountain
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783030095390
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 313
  • Original Price: EUR 129.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Softcover Repri
  • Item Weight: 399 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Theater / History & Criticism, Modern / 18th Century, and General

From the Back Cover
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 Räuber, 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.

Pascale LaFountain is Assistant Professor of German and French at Montclair State University in New Jersey, USA. She received her Ph.D. in German Studies from Harvard University in 2011. Her publications on theater, gender, and performance include articles and book chapters on G. E. Lessing, Heinrich von Kleist, Elfriede Jelinek, and Heiner Müller.

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