From Perinet to Jelinek: Viennese Theatre in its Political and Intellectual Context.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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From Perinet to Jelinek: Viennese Theatre in its Political and Intellectual Context. Ed. by. W. E. YATES, ALLYSON FIDDLER, and JOHN WARREN. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 28) Oxford, Bern, etc.: Peter Lang. 290 pp. 2001. SwF 72. ISBN 3-906766-80-2 (pbk).

Although the title and the chronological arrangement of these papers may suggest a survey of the familiar Viennese theatrical canon, we in fact get something more unusual: an account not only of mainline theatre but also of associated forms such as cabaret and monodrama, with attention to such...

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