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Hace 3 días · The theatre of ancient Greece consisted of three types of drama: tragedy, comedy, and the satyr play. Athenian tragedy—the oldest surviving form of tragedy—is a type of dance-drama that formed an important part of the theatrical culture of the city-state.
Hace 2 días · The start of drama theatre goes way back to ancient times when people performed in rituals and ceremonies. These were the early forms of storytelling and acting. As societies grew, so did their ways of telling stories, especially with the Greeks. They brought in plays with clear structures, better stage designs, and introduced us to the tragic ...
Hace 2 días · Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ ˈ v ɑː ɡ n ər / VAHG-nər; German: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his ...
Hace 1 día · In Germany, Hamlet had become so assimilated by the mid-19th century that Ferdinand Freiligrath declared that "Germany is Hamlet". From the 1850s, the Parsi theatre tradition in India transformed Hamlet into folk performances, with dozens of songs added.
Hace 3 días · I’ve finished German’s dark 19th century play. DESPITE its dark themes and subjects, Piers Burnell has always loved the play Woyzeck. This is the best known work of German dramatist Georg Büchner (1813-1837), who died at the age of 23 before he had finished it. The surreal storyline features an eclectic mix of characters and some extreme ...
Hace 4 días · Price: £19.99. Peter Wilson’s monumental history of the Thirty Years War is a work which impresses the reader both by the author’s unrivalled command of detail and by the balanced account he gives of the main events and episodes of the war. Not perhaps since the days of Moriz Ritter’s German History in the Age of the Counter Reformation ...
Hace 1 día · AMC Networks’ streamer Acorn TV and Germany’s ZDF have ordered a third season of the mystery drama series set on the glamorous streets of Chelsea, with Adrian Scarborough ( Killing Eve, 1917 ...
