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1. The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies

   By Erika Fischer-Lichte

   Erika Fischer-Lichte's introduction to the discipline of Theatre Studies is a strikingly authoritative and wide ranging guide to the study of theatre in all of its forms. Its three-part structure moves from the first steps in starting to think about performance, through to the...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Global Ibsen

   Performing Multiple Modernities

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Barbara Gronau, Christel Weiler

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Ibsen’s plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting rapturous praise as well as fierce controversy,...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Performance and the Politics of Space

   Theatre and Topology

   Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Benjamin Wihstutz

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Transformative Power of Performance

   A New Aesthetics

   By Erika Fischer-Lichte

   In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring...

   Published June 4th 2008 by Routledge
5. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre

   By Erika Fischer-Lichte

   In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre...

   Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge
6. History of European Drama and Theatre

   By Erika Fischer-Lichte

   This major study reconstructs the vast history of European drama from Greek tragedy through to twentieth-century theatre, focusing on the subject of identity. Throughout history, drama has performed and represented political, religious, national, ethnic, class-related, gendered, and individual...

   Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge