Europe's Itinerant Players and the Advent of German-language Theatre in Reval, Estonia

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

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This study investigates 17th century documents of itinerant European actors and puppeteers who travelled to eastern outposts of German culture on the Baltic, especially to Reval/Tallinn, Estonia. Their petitions, heritage, routes and repertory are discussed. The book is intended for Germanists, European theatre historians, Baltic German scholars, artistic directors of theatres, and the English-only reader. Centuries-old archival material appears here for the first time: itinerant players' German petitions from Reval's Archives are reproduced in photographs, transcribed and analysed. Maps, comparative data of the players, and photographs of Reval's historical buildings are included. German transcriptions and English translations of the manuscripts provide valuable additions to the documentary history of the travelling stage. Discussion of the repertory includes a rare early 18th century playbill of a troupe called Die Hochteutschen Comoedianten who visited Mitau, Reval, Dorpat, Riga, and Stockholm. Aspects of Reval's cultural history during the Swedish era are discussed, giving colourful perspective to the itinerant players' theatre and the repertory tradition.Source materials in German and other languages and a bibliography about Baltic German history and the German theatre in Europe, especially Reval, are aids for further research about this long neglected topic. The reader is directed to many sources for studies in reception history in an essay by Tallinn's Kyra Robert in Appendix I. Comprehensive indices conclude the volume.

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Utgivningsdatum:1996-04-01
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:German Studies in Canada
Antal sidor:222
Upplaga:96001
Förlag:Peter Lang GmbH
Medarbetare:Manfred Kuxdorf
ISBN:9783631500255

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The Author: Laurence Kitching was born in 1937. He studied Theatre, French, German and Comparative Literature in Canada, Germany and the U.S. His Ph.D. dissertation (Indiana University) examined Bertolt Brecht's adaptation of Lenz's Der Hofmeister (Fink, 1976); his articles treat aspects of comparative literature and German theatre in Estonia. He edited the Journal of Baltic Studies (1986 to 1990); his edited and coedited books include a volume of Jaan Kaplinski's poetry, I am the Spring in Tartu (Laurel, 1991). Currently President of the research society Thalia Germanica, he is editing two volumes of German theatre conference proceedings and teaches Language and Literature at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver.