MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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245 00 $aTheatre, theory, theatre :$bthe major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel /$cedited with introductions by Daniel Gerould.
260 $aNew York :$bApplause,$cc2000.
300 $a492 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [491]).
505 0 $aIntroduction: the politics of theatre theory / Daniel Gerould -- The poetics (4th c. B.C.) / Aristotle -- The art of poetry (1st c. B.C.) / Horace -- Nātya'sāstra (1st c. A.D.?) / Bharata -- On the art of the Nō drama (15th c.) / Zeami -- The poetics of Aristotle (1570) / Lodovico Castelvetro -- The defense of Poesy (1583) / Philip Sydney -- The compendium of tragicomic poetry (1599) / Giambattista Guarini -- The new art of writing plays (1609) / Felix Lope de Vega -- The whole art of the stage (1657) / Franc̦ois Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac -- Of the three unities of action, time, and place (1660) / Pierre Corneille -- An essay of dramatic poetry (1668) / John Dryden -- Casual expressions of idle feelings (1671) / Li Yu -- Conversations on The natural son (1757) ; The paradox of acting (1773-8) / Denis Diderot -- An epistle to Mr. d'Alembert (1758) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Preface to Shakespeare (1765) / Samuel Johnson -- Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- The stage as a moral institution (1784) ; On the use of chorus in tragedy (1803) / Friedrich Schiller -- Of the dramatic art (1810) / Mme de Staël -- Lectures on dramatic art (1809-11) / August Wilhelm Schlegel --
505 0 $aShakespeare once again (1815) / Johann Wolfgang Goethe -- The world as will and idea (1819/1844) / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Preface to Cromwell (1827) / Victor Hugo -- The philosophy of fine art (1835) / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Slavic drama (1843) / Adam Mickiewicz -- The birth of tragedy (1872) / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Preface to Thérèse Raquin (1873) ; Naturalism in the theatre (1881) / Emile Zola -- Preface to Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg -- The tragical in daily life (1896) / Maurice Maeterlinck -- The actor and the Übermarionette (1907) / Gordon Craig -- The tragic theatre (1910) / William Butler Yeats -- The fairground booth (1912) / Vsevolod Meyerhold -- The variety theatre (1913) / Filippo Marinetti -- Tolstoy: tragedian or comedian? (1921) / Bernard Shaw -- The theatre and its double (1938) / Antonin Artaud -- The modern theatre is the epic theatre (1930) ; Alienation effects in Chinese acting (1935) / Bertolt Brecht -- Theater of the oppressed (1974) / Augusto Boal -- Drama and the African world-view (1976) / Wole Soyinka -- Writing for the stage (1986) / Václav Havel.
650 0 $aTheater$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aTheater$xHistory.
650 0 $aDrama$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aGerould, Daniel Charles,$d1928-
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