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Theatre/Theory/Theatre
The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
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Theatre/Theory/Theatre
The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
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From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists â poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers â whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries, we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like Craig and Meyerhold, and writers such as Nietzsche and Yeats. Each of Gerould's introductory essays shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the author. From Horace to Soyinka, Corneille to Brecht, this is an indispensable compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written.
From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists â poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers â whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries, we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like Craig and Meyerhold, and writers such as Nietzsche and Yeats. Each of Gerould's introductory essays shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the author. From Horace to Soyinka, Corneille to Brecht, this is an indispensable compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written.
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Table of contents
- Aristotle
- The Poetics (4th C. B.c.)
- Horace
- The Art Of Poetry (1st C. B.c.)
- Bharata
- NYasStra
- Zeami
- On The Art Of The N Drama (15th C.)
- Lodovico Castelvetro
- The Poetics Of Aristotle (1570)
- Sir Philip Sidney
- The Defense Of Poesy (1583)
- Giambattista Guarini
- The Compendium Of Tragicomic Poetry (1599)
- Felix Lope De Vega
- The New Art Of Writing Plays
- FranĂois HĂ©delin, AbbĂ© Dâaubignac
- The Whole Art Of The Stage (1657)
- Pierre Corneille
- Of The Three Unities Of Action, Time, And Place (1660)
- John Dryden
- An Essay Of Dramatic Poesy (1668)
- LI Yu
- Casual Expressions Of Idle Feelings (1671)
- Denis Diderot
- Conversations On The Natural Son (1757)
- The Paradox Of Acting (1773â8)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- An Epistle From J. J. Rousseau, Citizen Of Geneva To Mr. Dâalembert (1758)
- Samuel Johnson
- Preface To Shakespeare (1765)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9)
- Friedrich Schiller
- The Stage As A Moral Institution (1784)
- On The Use Of The Chorus In Tragedy (1803)
- Anne-Louise Germaine Necker, Mme De Staël
- Of The Dramatic Art (1810)
- August Wilhelm Schlegel
- Lectures On Dramatic Art And Literature (1809-11)
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- Shakespeare Once Again (1815)
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- The World As Will And Idea (1819/1844)
- Victor Hugo
- Preface To Cromwell (1827)
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- The Philosophy Of Fine Art (1835)
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Slavic Drama (1843)
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Birth Of Tragedy From The Spirit Of Music (1872)
- Emile Zola
- Preface To ThérÚse Raquin (1873)
- Naturalism In The Theatre (1881)
- August Strindberg
- Preface To Miss Julie (1888)
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- The Tragical In Daily Life (1896)
- Gordon Craig
- The Actor And The ĂŒBer-Marionette (1907)
- William Butler Yeats
- The Tragic Theatre (1910)
- Vsevolod Meyerhold
- The Fairground Booth (1912)
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- The Variety Theatre (1913)
- Bernard Shaw
- Tolstoy: Tragedian Or Comedian? (1921)
- Antonin Artaud
- The Theater And Its Double (1938)
- Bertolt Brecht
- The Modern Theatre Is The Epic Theatre (1930)
- Alienation Effects In Chinese Acting (1935)
- Augusto Boal
- Theater Of The Oppressed (1974)
- Wole Soyinka
- Drama And The African World-View (1976)
- VĂĄclav Havel
- Writing For The Stage (1986)