Texts Waiting for History

William Shakespeare Re-Imagined by Heiner Müller
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-420-3903-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 180, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 474 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

Heiner Müller’s re-imaginings of William Shakespeare have puzzled and fascinated readers and spectators alike for the past forty-five years. For the first time, this study addresses all of Müller’s re-workings of Shakespeare, including dramatic adaptations, translations, poems, references in interviews and in his autobiography, as well as fragments of unfinished projects, not forgetting the strong Shakespearean echoes in Müller’s last play, Germania 3. An analysis of Müller’s diverse positions regarding different understandings of history and of its catastrophic violence suggests that Shakespeare is at the literary and theoretical core of Müller’s always complex and conflicted relation with philosophy of history and with the notions of heritage, fragmentation and difference.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction – Texts Waiting for History

1. Incorporating Shakespeare
2. A Cemetery Is Not a Lunapark
3. Emergency Brake
4. Barbarism Begins at Home
5. Rome instead of Berlin

Conclusion
Annex 1
Annex 2
Bibliography
Index