Theatre, theory, theatre
Subtitle: the major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
By: edited with introductions by Daniel Gerould.
Contributors: Gerould, Daniel Charles, 1928-
Publisher: Applause; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Theater -- Philosophy; Theater -- History; Drama -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]).
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the politics of theatre theory / Daniel Gerould; title: The poetics (4th c. B.C.) / Aristotle; title: The art of poetry (1st c. B.C.) / Horace; title: Nātya'sāstra (1st c. A.D.?) / Bharata; title: On the art of the Nō drama (15th c.) / Zeami; title: The poetics of Aristotle (1570) / Lodovico Castelvetro; title: The defense of Poesy (1583) / Philip Sydney; title: The compendium of tragicomic poetry (1599) / Giambattista Guarini; title: The new art of writing plays (1609) / Felix Lope de Vega; title: The whole art of the stage (1657) / Franc̦ois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac; title: Of the three unities of action, time, and place (1660) / Pierre Corneille; title: An essay of dramatic poetry (1668) / John Dryden; title: Casual expressions of idle feelings (1671) / Li Yu; title: Conversations on The natural son (1757) ; The paradox of acting (1773-8) / Denis Diderot; title: An epistle to Mr. d'Alembert (1758) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau; title: Preface to Shakespeare (1765) / Samuel Johnson; title: Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; title: The stage as a moral institution (1784) ; On the use of chorus in tragedy (1803) / Friedrich Schiller; title: Of the dramatic art (1810) / Mme de Staël; title: Lectures on dramatic art (1809-11) / August Wilhelm Schlegel; title: Shakespeare once again (1815) / Johann Wolfgang Goethe; title: The world as will and idea (1819/1844) / Arthur Schopenhauer; title: Preface to Cromwell (1827) / Victor Hugo; title: The philosophy of fine art (1835) / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; title: Slavic drama (1843) / Adam Mickiewicz; title: The birth of tragedy (1872) / Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Preface to Thérèse Raquin (1873) ; Naturalism in the theatre (1881) / Emile Zola; title: Preface to Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg; title: The tragical in daily life (1896) / Maurice Maeterlinck; title: The actor and the Übermarionette (1907) / Gordon Craig; title: The tragic theatre (1910) / William Butler Yeats; title: The fairground booth (1912) / Vsevolod Meyerhold; title: The variety theatre (1913) / Filippo Marinetti; title: Tolstoy: tragedian or comedian? (1921) / Bernard Shaw; title: The theatre and its double (1938) / Antonin Artaud; title: The modern theatre is the epic theatre (1930) ; Alienation effects in Chinese acting (1935) / Bertolt Brecht; title: Theater of the oppressed (1974) / Augusto Boal; title: Drama and the African world-view (1976) / Wole Soyinka; title: Writing for the stage (1986) / Václav Havel.