Peter Stein: Germany's Leading Theatre Director (Paperback)

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Exploring styles - Bond's Saved, Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities and Weiss's Vietnam-Discourse; 2. The Brechtian approach to the classics - Schiller's Intrigue and Love and Goethe's Torquato Tasso; 3. Theatre structures old and new - Bond's Early Morning and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling in Zurich, and the move to the Schaubuhne, Berlin; 4. Theatre of revolution - Brecht's The Mother, Worker's Theatre and Vishnevsky's Optimistic Tragedy; 5. The myth of bourgeois individualism - Ibsen's Peer Gynt; 6. From bourgeois past to bourgeois present - Kleist's Prinz von Homburg, Labishe's Piggy Bank, the Antiquity Project, Gorky's Summerfolk, Handke and Botho Strauss; 7. Confrontation with Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Memory and As You Like it; 8. Conclusion - Stein the explorer and the Schaubuhne as model; Bibliography; Index.