Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 705 g
A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre, 1850-1990
Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 705 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-871140-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Modern Theories of Drama concentrates on the developments in dramatic theory over the last 150 years, providing a crucial resource for students of drama and theatre studies. From Aristotle's Poetics onwards, drama - especially 'serious' drama - has been encased in a framework of theory, although the more popular forms of theatre have often chosen to ignore this. However, from the eighteenth century until the present day, theoretical questioning of the 'rules' (Aristotelian and other) has constantly grown in scope and strength. This attack was to become more and more vigorous in the second half of the nineteenth century and reach gale force in the twentieth. Different audience profiles and new performance venues; innovative methods of presentation; a changing sense of the purposes of drama and of its philosophical content, have resulted in the striking instability of theory which confronts us today. Quite new concepts have arisen in this century, seemingly outdated ones have been resurrected.
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- Part I: Introduction
- The Work of Art of the Future
- The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
- The Law of the Drama
- The Comic in Situations
- Melodrama
- For a Theatre of Situations
- Theatre Problems
- Theatre Without a Conscience
- Are There Universals of Performance in Myth, Ritual, and Drama?
- Part II: Varieties of Realism
- The Relationship of Dramatic Art to its Age and Allied Matters
- Naturalism
- Author's Preface to `Miss Julie'
- Against the Well-Made Play
- `Death of a Salesman': A Modern Tragedy?
- Part III: Anti-Naturalism
- The Tragical in Daily Life
- The Theatre
- Certain Nobel Plays of Japan
- On the Theatre: The Fairground Booth
- The Art of the Theatre: The First Dialogue
- Organic Unity
- Memoranda on Masks
- A Dramatist's Notebook
- Author's Note to `A Dream Play'
- On the Futility of the `Theatrical' in the Theatre
- Preface and Prologue to `The Breasts of Tiresias'
- Preface to Die Unsterblichen (`The Immortals')
- Preface to `Methusalem, The Eternal Bourgeois'
- The Futurist Synthetic Theatre
- On a New Type of Play
- The Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto
- An End to Masterpieces
- The Theatre's New Testament
- The Holy Theatre: Happenings
- The London Controversy: Tynan v. Ionesco
- Part IV: Political Theatre
- Letter to a Creative Collaborator
- The Programme of the Proletarian Theatre
- The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre
- A Short Organum for the Theatre
- The Material and the Models
- Poetics of the Oppressed
- Political Dynamics: The Feminisms
- Part V: Semiotics
- Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre
- Semiotics of Theatrical Performance
- Psychic Polyphony
- The Signs of Stage and Screen
- Avant-Garde Theatre and Semiology: A Few Practices and the Theory Behind Them
- Select Bibliography
- Index
