Theatre/theory/theatre : the major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel / edited with introductions by Daniel Gerould.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerould, Daniel C. (Daniel Charles), 1928-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Physical Description:

492 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Major critical texts

Place of Publication:

New York : Applause, [2000]

Summary:

From Aristotle's Poetics to Brecht, Boal, and Hayel, controversy and polemics have characterized the debate about the nature and function of theatre. Daniel Gerould's landmark collection spotlights those influential theorists deeply involved in the theatre -- playwrights, directors, poets, and philosophers -- whose speculative positions continue to shape the future of the theatre.

Drama and performance are not considered in isolation one from the other, nor is western theatre separated from Asian and African. In the ongoing dialogue and interchange of ideas, actors and directors like Craig and Meyerhold hold their own with philosophers and poets such as Nietzsche and Soyinka and Yeats.

Shorter essays are given in their entirety, while excerpts from longer works appear in coherent, consecutive sections rather than in highly edited snippets.

Contents:

Introduction: The Politics of Theatre Theory / Daniel Gerould 11

/ Aristotle

The Poetics (4th c. B.C.): translation by Ingram Bywater, selections 43

/ Horace

The Art of Poetry (1st c. B.C.): translation by John Conington, complete 68

/ Bharata

Natyasastra (1st c. A.D.?): translation by Adya Rangacharya, selections 84

/ Zeami

On the Art of the No Drama (15th c.): translation by J. Thomas Rimer and Yamazaki Masakazu, selections 96

/ Lodovico Castelvetro

The Poetics of Aristotle (1570): translation by Allan H. Gilbert, selections 108

/ Philip Sidney

The Defense of Poesy (1583), selections 117

/ Giambattista Guarini

The Compendium of Tragicomic Poetry (1599): translation by Allan H. Gilbert, selections 128

/ Felix Lope de Vega

The New Art of Writing Plays (1609): translation by Marvin Carlson, complete 135

/ Francois Hedelin, abbe d'Aubignac

The Whole Art of the Stage (1657): anonymous translation (1684), selections 146

/ Pierre Corneille

Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place (1660): translation by Donald Schier, complete 153

/ John Dryden

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), selections 168

/ Li Yu

Casual Expressions of Idle Feelings (1671): translation by Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun, selections 179

/ Denis Diderot

Conversations on The Natural Son (1757): translation by Derek Coltman, selections 189

The Paradox of Acting (1773-8): translation by Walter Herries Pollock, selections 198

/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An Epistle to Mr. d'Alembert (1758): anonymous translation (1767), selections 202

/ Samuel Johnson

Preface to Shakespeare (1765), selections 219

/ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9): translation by Helen Zimmern, selections 236

/ Friedrich Schiller

The Stage as a Moral Institution (1784): anonymous translation, complete 248

On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy (1803): translation by Charles E. Passage, complete 255

/ Mme de Stael

Of The Dramatic Art (1810): anonymous translation (1871), selections 262

/ August Wilhelm Schlegel

Lectures on Dramatic Art (1809-11): translation by John Black, selections 268

/ Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Shakespeare Once Again (1815): translation by Ellen von Nardroff and Ernest H. von Nardroff, complete 276

/ Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea (1819/1844): translation by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, selections 288

/ Victor Hugo

Preface to Cromwell (1827): translation by Barry V. Daniels, selections 298

/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Philosophy of Fine Art (1835): translation by F. P. B. Osmaston, selections 314

/ Adam Mickiewicz

Slavic Drama (1843): translation by Daniel Gerould, selections 327

/ Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy (1872): translation by Clifton P. Fadiman, selections 336

/ Emile Zola

Preface to Therese Raquin (1873): translation by Kathleen Boutall, complete 351

Naturalism in the Theatre (1881): translation by Jane House, selections 358

/ August Strindberg

Preface to Miss Julie (1888): translation by Harry G. Carlson, complete 368

/ Maurice Maeterlinck

The Tragical in Daily Life (1896): translation by Alfred Sutro, complete 381

/ Gordon Craig

The Actor and the Ubermarionette (1907), selections 390

/ William Butler Yeats

The Tragic Theatre (1910), complete 399

/ Vsevolod Meyerhold

The Fairground Booth (1912): translation by Edward Braun, selections 406

/ Filippo Marinetti

The Variety Theatre (1913): translation by R. W. Flint, complete 419

/ Bernard Shaw

Tolstoy: Tragedian or Comedian? (1921), selections 427

/ Antonin Artaud

The Theater and Its Double (1938): translation by Mary Caroline Richards, selections 433

/ Bertolt Brecht

The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (1930)

Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting (1935): translations by John Willett, both complete 444

/ Augusto Boal

Theater of the Oppressed (1974): translation by Charles A. and Maria-Odilia Leal McBride, selections 462

/ Wole Soyinka

Drama and the African World-view (1976), selections 474

/ Vaclav Havel

Writing for the Stage (1986): translation by Paul Wilson, selections 483.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [491]).

ISBN:

1557833095 :

OCLC:

43263540