This anthology concentrates on the developments in dramatic theory over the last 150 years, examining its striking instability, the new concepts which have arisen in this century, and the seemingly outdated ones which have been resurrected. Including excerpts from a number of significant figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book also makes available new and highly accurate translations of some of the better-known pieces from such writers as Emile Zola, Richard Wagner, and Yvan Goll. The anthology is accompanied by an extremely full bibliography of relevant works in English.
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"...[a] valuable compendium of writing on theatre from 1840 to 1990."--Times Literary Supplement
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George W. Brandt is at University of Bristol.
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Richard Wagner (1813-83) had the widest international impact of any nineteenth-century German man of the theatre-an artistic (though one would hope not an ideological) influence felt to this day-being in his own person a composer, a librettist, a conductor, a producer, and a festival organizer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychic polyphony, documentary theatre, fairground booth, theatre semiotics, holy theatre, psychic presence, dramatic theory, theatrical sign, epic theatre, bourgeois feminism, naturalistic drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Miss Julie, Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, United States, August Strindberg, Peter Brook, Proletarian Theatre, Pure Form, Adolphe Appia, Marvin Carlson, Arthur Miller, Eric Bentley, Henri Bergson, Jerzy Grotowski, Mary Magdalene, Peter Weiss, Émile Zola, Eugene O'Neill, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Hebbel, George Brandt, Patrice Pavis, Richard Wagner, Salvation Army New!
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Richard Wagner (1813-83) had the widest international impact of any nineteenth-century German man of the theatre-an artistic (though one would hope not an ideological) influence felt to this day-being in his own person a composer, a librettist, a conductor, a producer, and a festival organizer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
psychic polyphony, documentary theatre, fairground booth, theatre semiotics, holy theatre, psychic presence, dramatic theory, theatrical sign, epic theatre, bourgeois feminism, naturalistic drama Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Miss Julie, Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud, United States, August Strindberg, Peter Brook, Proletarian Theatre, Pure Form, Adolphe Appia, Marvin Carlson, Arthur Miller, Eric Bentley, Henri Bergson, Jerzy Grotowski, Mary Magdalene, Peter Weiss, Émile Zola, Eugene O'Neill, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Hebbel, George Brandt, Patrice Pavis, Richard Wagner, Salvation Army New!
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- Empty Space (Penguin Literary Criticism) by Peter Brook on 4 pages
- A Dream Play by Caryl Churchill on 4 pages
- Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal in Front Matter, page 249, and page 253
- Arguments for a Theatre by Howard Barker in Front Matter, page 54, and Back Matter
- Selected Writings of Artaud by Antonin Artaud in Front Matter, page 187, and Back Matter
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- Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism by Varun Begley on 4 pages
- Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems (Theatre and Performance Theory) by Nicholas Ridout in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Tragic Idea (Classical Inter/Faces) by Vassilis Lambropoulos in Back Matter
- Theatre History Explained by Neil Fraser in Back Matter
- Crimes of Art and Terror by Frank Lentricchia in Back Matter
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