Contributor
Brandt, George W.
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxxii, 334 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:The work of art of the future / Richard Wagner. - The thirty-six dramatic situations / Georges Polit. - The law of the drama / Ferdinand Brunetière. - The comic in situations / Henri Bergson. - Melodrama / Eric Bentley. - For a theatre of situations / Jean-Paul Sartre. - Theatre problems / Friedrich Dürrenmatt. - Theatre without a conscience / Howard Barker. - Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama? / Victor Turner. - The relationship of dramatic art to its age and allied matters: the preface to Mary Magdalene / Friedrich Hebbel. - Naturalism / Émile Zola. - Author's preface to Miss Julie / August Strindberg. - Against the well-made play / George Bernard Shaw. - Death of a salesman: a modern tragedy? / Arthur Miller.
Note:The tragical in daily life / Maurice Maeterlinck. - The theatre / William Butler Yeats. - Certain noble plays of Japan / William Butler Yeats. - On the theatre: The Fairground Booth / Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold. - On the art of the theatre: the first dialogue / Edward Gordon Craig. - Organic unity / Adolphe Appia. - Memoranda on masks / Eugene O'Neill. - A dramatist's notebook / Eugene O'Neill. - Author's note to A Dream Play / August Strindberg. - On the futility of the 'theatrical' in the theatre / Alfred Jarry. - Preface and prologue to The Breasts of Tiresias / Guillaume Apollinaire. - Preface to The Immortals / Yvan Goll. - Preface to Methusalem, the Eternal Bourgeois / Yvan Goll. - The futurist synthetic theatre / Filippo Tommaso marinetti. - On a new type of play / Stanislaw Ignacvy Witkiewicz. - The theatre of cruelty: first manifesto / Antonin Artaud. - An end to masterpieces / Antonin Artaud. - The theatre's new testament / Jerzy Grotowski. - The holy theatre: happenings / Peter Brook. - The London controversy: Tynan v. Ionesco. - Letter to a creative collaborator / Ernst Toller. - The programme of the proletarian theatre / ErwinPiscator. - The modern theatre is the epic theatre: notes to the opera Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahagonny / Bertolt Brecht. - A short organum for the theatre / Bertolt Brecht. - The material and the models: notes towards a definition of documentary theatre / Peter Weiss. - Poetics of the oppressed / Augusto Boal. - Political dynamics: the feminisms / Michelene Wandor. - Dynamics of the sign in the theatre /rJindrich Honzl. - Semiotics of theatrical performance / Umberto Eco. - Psychic polyphony / Marvin Carlson. - The signs of stage and screen / Martin Esslin. - Avant-garde theatre and semiology: a few practices and the theory behind them / Patrice Pavis.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and index.
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