"Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fra…
Far from teleological historiography, the pan-European perspective on Early Modern drama offered in this volume provides answers to why, how, where and when the given phenomena of theatre appear in history. Using theories of circulation and other concepts of exchange, transfer and movement, the authors analyze the development and differentiation of European secular and religious drama, within t…
This anthology aims to give a cross-section of javanese literature during the third quarter of the 20th century. A truly representative anthology faithfully reflecting every aspect of the literary life of such a long period is difficult to achieve, if only because of the limitations imposed by the quantity and nature of the material to which the compiler has access and the space available,…