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Theatre in Theory is the most complete anthology documenting 20th-century dramatic and performance theory to date, offering a rich variety of perspectives from the century’s most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers. Includes major theoretical and critical manifestos, hypotheses, and theories from the field Wide-ranging and broadly constructed, this text has both interdisciplinary and global appeal Includes a thematic index, section introductions, and supporting commentary Helps students, teachers, and practitioners to think critically about the nature of theatre

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I 1900–1920 35 Introduction to Part I 35 1 August Strindberg (1849–1912) 37 Preface to Miss Julie (1888) 38 2 Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) 46 The Decay of Lying: An Observation (1889) 47 3 Henri Bergson (1859–1941) 51 Laughter (Le Rire, 1900) 52 4 Valery Bryusov (1873–1924) 55 Against Naturalism in the Theatre (from ‘‘Unnecessary Truth’’) (1902) 56 5 Romain Rolland (1866–1944) 61 The People’s Theatre (1903) 61 6 Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) 64 The Modern Drama (1904) 65 7 Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914) 71 Colored Men and Women on the Stage (1905) 71 8 Vsevolod Vaslov Meyerhold (1874–1940) 75 The Naturalistic Theatre and the Theatre of Mood (1908) 76 9 Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966) 88 The Actor and the Über-marionette (1908) 88 10 William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) 99 The Tragic Theatre (1910) 100 11 George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) 104 Against the Well-Made Play (1911) 105 12 F. T. Marinetti (1876–1944) 110 Futurism and the Theatre (1913) 111 13 Georg Lukács (1885–1971) 116 The Sociology of Modern Drama (1914) 117 14 Emma Goldman (1869–1940) 131 Foreword to The Social Significance of Modern Drama (1917) 131 Part II 1920–1940 135 Introduction to Part II 135 15 Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) 139 On Comedy (1920) 139 16 Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885–1939) 144 On a New Type of Play (1920) 145 17 Adolphe Appia (1862–1928) 149 Organic Unity (1921) 150 18 Georg Kaiser (1878–1945) 155 Man in the Tunnel, or: The Poet and the Play (1923) 156 19 Alain Locke (1886–1954) 158 The Negro and the American Stage (1926) 159 The Drama of Negro Life (1926) 161 20 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) 164 ‘‘Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre’’: The Story of a Little Theatre Movement (1926) 165 Criteria of Negro Art (1926) 165 21 Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) 169 The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (1930) 171 Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction (ca. 1936) 173 Alienation Effect in Chinese Acting (1936) 178 22 Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) 185 Memoranda on Masks (1932) 185 Second Thoughts (1932) 187 A Dramatist’s Notebook (1933) 188 23 Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) 190 Plays (1934) 191 24 Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) 195 Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934) 196 25 Federico García Lorca (1899–1936) 203 The Prophecy of Lorca (1934) 203 26 Antonin Artaud (1896–1949) 206 On the Balinese Theatre (1938) 207 No More Masterpieces (1938) 216 27 Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) 222 What is Epic Theatre? (1939) 223 28 Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959) 228 The Essence of Tragedy (1939) 228 29 Karel Brušák (1913–2004) 234 Signs in the Chinese Theatre (1939) 235 Part III 1940–1960 245 Introduction to Part III 245 30 Jindřich Honzl (1894–1953) 249 Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre (1940) 249 31 Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) 258 Some Thoughts on Playwrighting (1941) 258 32 Arthur Miller (1915–2005) 266 Tragedy and the Common Man (1949) 267 33 T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) 270 Poetry and Drama (1950) 270 34 Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) 274 The Timeless World of the Play (1951) 274 35 John Gassner (1903–1967) 278 ‘‘Enlightenment’’ and Modern Drama (1954) 278 36 Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990) 287 Problems of the Theatre (1955) 287 37 Sean O’Casey (1880–1964) 293 Green Goddess of Realism (1956) 293 38 Eric Bentley (b. 1916) 298 What is Theatre? A Point of View (1956) 298 39 Northrop Frye (1912–1991) 302 Specific Forms of Drama (1957) 302 40 Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994) 309 The Avant-Garde Theatre (1960) 309 41 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) 317 Beyond Bourgeois Theatre (1960) 318 Part IV 1960–1980 325 Introduction to Part IV 325 42 Martin Esslin (1918–2002) 329 The Theatre of the Absurd (1961) 329 43 George Steiner (b. 1929) 333 The Death of Tragedy (1961) 333 44 Roland Barthes (1915–1980) 336 The Task of Brechtian Criticism (1956) 336 Theatre and Signification (1963) 340 45 Lionel Abel (1910–2001) 342 Of Bert Brecht – Not Simple but Simplified (1963) 343 46 Francis Fergusson (1904–1986) 345 The Notion of ‘‘Action’’ (1964) 345 47 Peter Szondi (1929–1971) 348 The Drama (1965) 349 48 Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) 352 Dramatic Form – And: Tracking Down Implications (1966) 352 49 Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) 360 Theatre of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation (1966) 361 50 Jerzy Grotowski (1933–1999) 366 Towards the Poor Theatre (1967) 367 51 Raymond Williams (1921–1988) 373 Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1968) 373 52 Peter Brook (b. 1925) 378 The Immediate Theatre (1968) 378 53 Peter Weiss (1916–1982) 381 Notes on the Contemporary Theatre (1971) 381 54 Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) 387 The Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature (1972) 387 55 Luis Valdez (b. 1940) 390 Notes on Chicano Theater (1973) 390 56 Augusto Boal (b. 1931) 394 ‘‘Empathy or What? Emotion or Reason?’’ and ‘‘Experiments with the People’s Theatre in Peru’’ (1974) 394 57 Charles Ludlam (1943–1987) 397 Ridiculous Theatre, Scourge of Human Folly (1975) 397 58 Michael Kirby (b. 1931) 399 Manifesto of Structuralism (1975) 400 59 Wole Soyinka (b. 1934) 402 Drama and the African World-View (1976) 402 60 Robert Wilson (b. 1941) 408 ‘‘. . . I thought I was hallucinating hallucinating’’ (1977) 408 61 Patrice Pavis (b. 1947) 411 Languages of the Stage (1978) 411 62 Heiner Müller (1929–1995) 419 Reflections on Post-Modernism (1979) 419 63 Ntozake Shange (b. 1948) 423 unrecovered losses/black theater traditions (1979) 423 Part V 1980–2000 427 Introduction to Part V 427 64 Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) 431 Theatre Happening 1967 (1982) 431 65 Jeffrey E. Huntsman 434 Native American Theatre (1983) 434 66 Bert O. States (b. 1929) 441 The World On Stage (1985) 441 67 Victor Turner (1920–1983) 448 Images and Reflections: Ritual, Drama, Carnival, Film, and Spectacle in Cultural Performance (1987) 448 68 Eugenio Barba (b. 1936) 455 Eurasian Theatre (1988) 455 69 Megumi Sata 460 Aristotle’s Poetics and Zeami’s Teachings on Style and the Flower (1989) 460 70 Jill Dolan 469 Desire Cloaked in a Trenchcoat (1989) 470 71 Judith Butler (b. 1956) 476 From Parody to Politics (1990) 477 72 Reza Abdoh (1963–1995) 483 Los Angeles (1992) 483 73 Richard Foreman (b. 1937) 489 Foundations for a Theater (1992) 489 74 Suzan-Lori Parks (b. 1964) 494 Elements of Style (1994) 494 75 Rebecca Schneider (b. 1959) 500 The Explicit Body in Performance (1997) 500 76 Peggy Phelan (b. 1959) 505 Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (1997) 505 77 Erika Fischer-Lichte 509 Written Drama/Oral Performance (1997) 509 78 Richard Schechner (b. 1934) 517 What is Performance Studies Anyway? (1998) 518 79 Alina Troyano 523 I, Carmelita Tropicana (2000) 523 80 Herbert Blau 533 Limits of Performance: The Insane Root (2001) 533 81 Mitsuya Mori 539 The Structure of Theater: A Japanese View of Theatricality (2002) 539 82 Heisnam Kanhailal (b. 1941) 549 Ritual Theatre (Theatre of Transition) (2004) 550 Theatre in Theory: Working Units 555 Selected Bibliography 557 Index 558

About the Author :
David Krasner is Associate Professor of Performing Arts and Head of the Acting Program at Emerson College. He is the coeditor (with Rebecca Schneider) of the University of Michigan Press's Series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance.

Review :
"This book presents perspectives from the era's major playwrights, directors, scholars and philosophers." Times Higher Education Supplement “At once comprehensive and original, this collection assembles for the first time an impressive body of theory drawn from a wide range of disciplines and traditions. This will be an indispensable sourcebook for anyone who enjoys not only going to the theatre, but also thinking about it afterwards.” Martin Puchner, Columbia University “An eclectic anthology of writings on theatre, many made accessible here for the first time. The often bracing juxtaposition of viewpoints from practitioners, playwrights, scholars, and theoreticians reminds us how rich the collective discourse of theatre has been since the beginning of the twentieth century. Bridging the divides that have so often characterized this field, Theatre in Theory offers a resounding testament to theatre’s urgency in the modern world.” Stanton B. Garner, Jr., University of Tennessee


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  • ISBN-13: 9781405140447
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Height: 248 mm
  • No of Pages: 608
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: An Anthology
  • Width: 173 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1405140445
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 992 gr


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