Theatre, theory, theatre : the major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel /
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| Imprint: | New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, [2000]. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12574927 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the politics of theatre theory / Daniel Gerould
- The poetics (4th c. B.C.) / Aristotle
- The art of poetry (1st c. B.C.) / Horace
- Nātya'sāstra (1st c. A.D.?) / Bharata
- On the art of the Nō drama (15th c.) / Zeami
- The poetics of Aristotle (1570) / Lodovico Castelvetro
- The defense of Poesy (1583) / Philip Sydney
- The compendium of tragicomic poetry (1599) / Giambattista Guarini
- The new art of writing plays (1609) / Felix Lope de Vega
- The whole art of the stage (1657) / Franc̦ois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
- Of the three unities of action, time, and place (1660) / Pierre Corneille
- An essay of dramatic poetry (1668) / John Dryden
- Casual expressions of idle feelings (1671) / Li Yu
- Conversations on The natural son (1757) ; The paradox of acting (1773-8) / Denis Diderot
- An epistle to Mr. d'Alembert (1758) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Preface to Shakespeare (1765) / Samuel Johnson
- Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- The stage as a moral institution (1784) ; On the use of chorus in tragedy (1803) / Friedrich Schiller
- Of the dramatic art (1810) / Mme de Staël
- Lectures on dramatic art (1809-11) / August Wilhelm Schlegel.
- Shakespeare once again (1815) / Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The world as will and idea (1819/1844) / Arthur Schopenhauer
- Preface to Cromwell (1827) / Victor Hugo
- The philosophy of fine art (1835) / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Slavic drama (1843) / Adam Mickiewicz
- The birth of tragedy (1872) / Friedrich Nietzsche
- Preface to Thérèse Raquin (1873) ; Naturalism in the theatre (1881) / Emile Zola
- Preface to Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg
- The tragical in daily life (1896) / Maurice Maeterlinck
- The actor and the Übermarionette (1907) / Gordon Craig
- The tragic theatre (1910) / William Butler Yeats
- The fairground booth (1912) / Vsevolod Meyerhold
- The variety theatre (1913) / Filippo Marinetti
- Tolstoy: tragedian or comedian? (1921) / Bernard Shaw
- The theatre and its double (1938) / Antonin Artaud
- The modern theatre is the epic theatre (1930) ; Alienation effects in Chinese acting (1935) / Bertolt Brecht
- Theater of the oppressed (1974) / Augusto Boal
- Drama and the African world-view (1976) / Wole Soyinka
- Writing for the stage (1986) / Václav Havel.
