Author:
Calderwood, James L. comp.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1968.
Descriptionvi, 453 p. : illus. ; 20 cm.
Note:Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder. - The conditions of dramatic art / Henri Chéon. - Problems of the theatre / Friedrich Dürrenmatt. - Poetics / Aristotle. - The primitive phase / Benjamin Hunningher. - The costumed player / Richard Southern. - Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke. - A metaphor for dramatic form / Marvin Rosenberg. - Myth and drama / Harold H. Watts. - Specific forms of drama / Northrop Frye. - Tragedy and melodrama: speculations on generic form / Robert B. Heilman. - Introduction to comedy / James L. Calderwood and Harold E. Toliver. - Comedy and tragedy transposed / Ellen Douglass Leyburn. - The theatre of the absurd / Martin Esslin. - "Rules of drama" / Sir Philip Sidney. - Discourse on the three unities / Pierre Corneille. - An essay on dramatic poesy / John Dryden. - Preface to Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson.
Note:Illusion / Arthur Koestler. - The timeless world of a play / Tennessee Williams. - The dramatic illusion / Susanne Langer. - On the experimental theatre / Bertold Brecht. - The elements of drama: plot / Elder Olson. - Manipulating the characters / J.L. Styan. - Character change and the drama / Harold Rosenberg. - Dramatic dialogue / Allardyce Nicoll. - The nature of the problem / Moody E. Prior. - The functions of imagery in the drama / Una Ellis-Fermor. - The life of our design / Alan S. Downer. - Enactment / Eric Bentley. - On the nature of the theatre / Max Frisch.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
