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Theatre in theory 1900-2000 : an anthology / edited by David Krasner.

Contributor(s): Krasner, David, 1952- [editor].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford : Blackwell, 2008Description: xviii, 577p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1405140445; 9781405140447; 9781405140430.Subject(s): Theater -- History -- 20th century | Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Performing Arts | Theatre studies | Dance | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999DDC classification: 792.0904 THE
Contents:
Part. I. 1900-1920 -- 1. Preface to Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- 2. Decay of Lying: An Observation / Oscar Wilde -- 3. Laughter / Henri Bergson -- 4. Against Naturalism in the Theatre (from "Unnecessary Truth") / Valery Bryusov -- 5. People's Theatre / Romain Rolland -- 6. Modern Drama / Maurice Maeterlinck -- 7. Colored Men and Women on the Stage / Aida Overton Walker -- 8. Naturalistic Theatre and the Theatre of Mood / Vsevolod Vaslov Meyerhold -- 9. Actor and the Uber-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig -- 10. Tragic Theatre / William Butler Yeats -- 11. Against the Well-Made Play / George Bernard Shaw -- 12. Futurism and the Theatre / F.T. Marinetti -- 13. Sociology of Modern Drama / Georg Lukacs -- 14. Foreword to The Social Significance of Modern Drama / Emma Goldman -- Part II. 1920-1940 -- 15. On Comedy / Luigi Pirandello -- 16. On a New Type of Play / Stanislaw Witkiewicz -- 17. Organic Unity / Adolphe Appia -- 18. Man in the Tunnel, or: The Poet and the Play / Georg Kaiser -- 19. Negro and the American Stage / Alain Locke, Drama of Negro Life / Alain Locke -- 20. "Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre": The Story of a Little Theatre Movement / W.E.B. Du Bois, Criteria of Negro Art / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 21. Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre / Bertolt Brecht, Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction / Bertolt Brecht, Alienation Effect in Chinese Acting / Bertolt Brecht -- 22. Memoranda on Masks / Eugene O'Neill Second Thoughts / Eugene O'Neill Dramatist's Notebook / Eugene O'Neill -- 23. Plays / Gertrude Stein -- 24. Characteristics of Negro Expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- 25. Prophecy of Lorca / Federico Garcia Lorca -- 26. On the Balinese Theatre / Antonin Artaud -- No More Masterpieces / Antonin Artaud -- 27. What is Epic Theatre? / Walter Benjamin -- 28. Essence of Tragedy / Maxwell Anderson -- 29. Signs in the Chinese Theatre / Karel Brusak -- Part III. 1940-1960 -- 30. Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre / Jindrich Honzl -- 31. Some Thoughts on Playwrighting / Thornton Wilder -- 32. Tragedy and the Common Man / Arthur Miller -- 33. Poetry and Drama / T.S. Eliot -- 34. Timeless World of the Play / Tennessee Williams -- 35. "Enlightenment" and Modern Drama / John Gassner -- 36. Problems of the Theatre / Friedrich Durrenmatt -- 37. Green Goddess of Realism / Sean O'Casey -- 38. What is Theatre? A Point of View / Eric Bentley -- 39. Specific Forms of Drama / Northrop Frye -- 40. Avant-Garde Theatre / Eugene Ionesco -- 41. Beyond Bourgeois Theatre / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Part IV. 1960-1980 -- 42. Theatre of the Absurd / Martin Esslin -- 43. Death of Tragedy / George Steiner -- 44. Task of Brechtian Criticism / Roland Barthes Theatre and Signification / Roland Barthes -- 45. Of Bert Brecht Not Simple but Simplified / Lionel Abel -- 46. Notion of "Action" / Francis Fergusson -- 47. Drama / Peter Szondi -- 48. Dramatic Form And: Tracking Down Implications / Kenneth Burke -- 49. Theatre of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation / Jacques Derrida -- 50. Towards the Poor Theatre / Jerzy Grotowski -- 51. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht / Raymond Williams -- 52. Immediate Theatre / Peter Brook -- 53. Notes on the Contemporary Theatre / Peter Weiss -- 54. Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature / Joyce Carol Oates -- 55. Notes on Chicano Theater / Luis Valdez -- 56. "Empathy or What? Emotion or Reason?" and "Experiments with the People's Theatre in Peru" / Augusto Boal -- 57. Ridiculous Theatre, Scourge of Human Folly / Charles Ludlam -- 58. Manifesto of Structuralism / Michael Kirby -- 59. Drama and the African World-View / Wole Soyinka -- 60." ... I thought I was hallucinating hallucinating" / Robert Wilson -- 61. Languages of the Stage / Patrice Pavis -- 62. Reflections on Post-Modernism / Heiner Muller -- 63. Unrecovered losses/black theater traditions / Ntozake Shange -- Part V. 1980-2000 -- 64. Theatre Happening 1967 / Tadeusz Kantor -- 65. Native American Theatre / Jeffrey E. Huntsman -- 66. World On Stage / Bert O. States -- 67. Images and Reflections: Ritual, Drama, Carnival, Film, and Spectacle in Cultural Performance / Victor Turner -- 68. Eurasian Theatre / Eugenio Barba -- 69. Aristotle's Poetics and Zeami's Teachings on Style and the Flower / Megumi Sata -- 70. Desire Cloaked in a Trenchcoat / Jill Dolan -- 71. From Parody to Politics / Judith Butler -- 72. Los Angeles / Reza Abdoh -- 73. Foundations for a Theater / Richard Foreman -- 74. Elements of Style / Suzan-Lori Parks -- 75. Explicit Body in Performance / Rebecca Schneider -- 76. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories / Peggy Phelan -- 77. Written Drama/Oral Performance / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- 78. What is Performance Studies Anyway? / Richard Schechner -- 79. I, Carmelita Tropicana / Alina Troyano -- 80. Limits of Performance: The Insane Root / Herbert Blau -- 81. Structure of Theater: A Japanese View of Theatricality / Mitsuya Mori -- 82. Ritual Theatre (Theatre of Transition) / Heisnam Kanhailal -- Theatre in Theory: Working Units
Summary: Featuring the writings of Wilde, Brecht, T.S. Eliot, and Tennessee Williams, among many others, this book considers theatrical aesthetics, dramatic criticism, and performance theory to help students, teachers and practitioners to think critically about the nature of theatre.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part. I. 1900-1920 -- 1. Preface to Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- 2. Decay of Lying: An Observation / Oscar Wilde -- 3. Laughter / Henri Bergson -- 4. Against Naturalism in the Theatre (from "Unnecessary Truth") / Valery Bryusov -- 5. People's Theatre / Romain Rolland -- 6. Modern Drama / Maurice Maeterlinck -- 7. Colored Men and Women on the Stage / Aida Overton Walker -- 8. Naturalistic Theatre and the Theatre of Mood / Vsevolod Vaslov Meyerhold -- 9. Actor and the Uber-marionette / Edward Gordon Craig -- 10. Tragic Theatre / William Butler Yeats -- 11. Against the Well-Made Play / George Bernard Shaw -- 12. Futurism and the Theatre / F.T. Marinetti -- 13. Sociology of Modern Drama / Georg Lukacs -- 14. Foreword to The Social Significance of Modern Drama / Emma Goldman -- Part II. 1920-1940 -- 15. On Comedy / Luigi Pirandello -- 16. On a New Type of Play / Stanislaw Witkiewicz -- 17. Organic Unity / Adolphe Appia -- 18. Man in the Tunnel, or: The Poet and the Play / Georg Kaiser -- 19. Negro and the American Stage / Alain Locke, Drama of Negro Life / Alain Locke -- 20. "Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre": The Story of a Little Theatre Movement / W.E.B. Du Bois, Criteria of Negro Art / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 21. Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre / Bertolt Brecht, Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction / Bertolt Brecht, Alienation Effect in Chinese Acting / Bertolt Brecht -- 22. Memoranda on Masks / Eugene O'Neill Second Thoughts / Eugene O'Neill Dramatist's Notebook / Eugene O'Neill -- 23. Plays / Gertrude Stein -- 24. Characteristics of Negro Expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- 25. Prophecy of Lorca / Federico Garcia Lorca -- 26. On the Balinese Theatre / Antonin Artaud -- No More Masterpieces / Antonin Artaud -- 27. What is Epic Theatre? / Walter Benjamin -- 28. Essence of Tragedy / Maxwell Anderson -- 29. Signs in the Chinese Theatre / Karel Brusak -- Part III. 1940-1960 -- 30. Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre / Jindrich Honzl -- 31. Some Thoughts on Playwrighting / Thornton Wilder -- 32. Tragedy and the Common Man / Arthur Miller -- 33. Poetry and Drama / T.S. Eliot -- 34. Timeless World of the Play / Tennessee Williams -- 35. "Enlightenment" and Modern Drama / John Gassner -- 36. Problems of the Theatre / Friedrich Durrenmatt -- 37. Green Goddess of Realism / Sean O'Casey -- 38. What is Theatre? A Point of View / Eric Bentley -- 39. Specific Forms of Drama / Northrop Frye -- 40. Avant-Garde Theatre / Eugene Ionesco -- 41. Beyond Bourgeois Theatre / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Part IV. 1960-1980 -- 42. Theatre of the Absurd / Martin Esslin -- 43. Death of Tragedy / George Steiner -- 44. Task of Brechtian Criticism / Roland Barthes Theatre and Signification / Roland Barthes -- 45. Of Bert Brecht Not Simple but Simplified / Lionel Abel -- 46. Notion of "Action" / Francis Fergusson -- 47. Drama / Peter Szondi -- 48. Dramatic Form And: Tracking Down Implications / Kenneth Burke -- 49. Theatre of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation / Jacques Derrida -- 50. Towards the Poor Theatre / Jerzy Grotowski -- 51. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht / Raymond Williams -- 52. Immediate Theatre / Peter Brook -- 53. Notes on the Contemporary Theatre / Peter Weiss -- 54. Edge of Impossibility: Tragic Forms in Literature / Joyce Carol Oates -- 55. Notes on Chicano Theater / Luis Valdez -- 56. "Empathy or What? Emotion or Reason?" and "Experiments with the People's Theatre in Peru" / Augusto Boal -- 57. Ridiculous Theatre, Scourge of Human Folly / Charles Ludlam -- 58. Manifesto of Structuralism / Michael Kirby -- 59. Drama and the African World-View / Wole Soyinka -- 60." ... I thought I was hallucinating hallucinating" / Robert Wilson -- 61. Languages of the Stage / Patrice Pavis -- 62. Reflections on Post-Modernism / Heiner Muller -- 63. Unrecovered losses/black theater traditions / Ntozake Shange -- Part V. 1980-2000 -- 64. Theatre Happening 1967 / Tadeusz Kantor -- 65. Native American Theatre / Jeffrey E. Huntsman -- 66. World On Stage / Bert O. States -- 67. Images and Reflections: Ritual, Drama, Carnival, Film, and Spectacle in Cultural Performance / Victor Turner -- 68. Eurasian Theatre / Eugenio Barba -- 69. Aristotle's Poetics and Zeami's Teachings on Style and the Flower / Megumi Sata -- 70. Desire Cloaked in a Trenchcoat / Jill Dolan -- 71. From Parody to Politics / Judith Butler -- 72. Los Angeles / Reza Abdoh -- 73. Foundations for a Theater / Richard Foreman -- 74. Elements of Style / Suzan-Lori Parks -- 75. Explicit Body in Performance / Rebecca Schneider -- 76. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories / Peggy Phelan -- 77. Written Drama/Oral Performance / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- 78. What is Performance Studies Anyway? / Richard Schechner -- 79. I, Carmelita Tropicana / Alina Troyano -- 80. Limits of Performance: The Insane Root / Herbert Blau -- 81. Structure of Theater: A Japanese View of Theatricality / Mitsuya Mori -- 82. Ritual Theatre (Theatre of Transition) / Heisnam Kanhailal -- Theatre in Theory: Working Units

Featuring the writings of Wilde, Brecht, T.S. Eliot, and Tennessee Williams, among many others, this book considers theatrical aesthetics, dramatic criticism, and performance theory to help students, teachers and practitioners to think critically about the nature of theatre.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I 1900-1920
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1 August Strindberg (1849-1912)
  • Preface to Miss Julie (1888)
  • 2 Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
  • The Decay of Lying: An Observation (1889)
  • 3 Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
  • Laughter (Le Rire, 1900)
  • 4 Valery Bryusov (1873-1924)
  • Against Naturalism in the Theatre (from "Unnecessary Truth") (1902)
  • 5 Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
  • The People's Theatre (1903)
  • 6 Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
  • The Modern Drama (1904)
  • 7 Aida Overton Walker (1880-1914)
  • Colored Men and Women on the Stage (1905)
  • 8 Vsevolod Vaslov Meyerhold (1874-1940)
  • The Naturalistic Theatre and the Theatre of Mood (1908)
  • 9 Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966)
  • The Actor and the ber-marionette (1908)
  • 10 William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
  • The Tragic Theatre (1910)
  • 11 George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  • Against the Well-Made Play (1911)
  • 12 F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944)
  • Futurism and the Theatre (1913)
  • 13 Georg Lukfcs (1885-1971)
  • The Sociology of Modern Drama (1914)
  • 14 Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
  • Foreword to The Social Significance of Modern Drama (1917)
  • Part II 1920-1940:.Introduction to Part II
  • 15 Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)
  • On Comedy (1920)
  • 16 Stanislaw Witkiewicz (1885-1939)
  • On a New Type of Play (1920)
  • 17 Adolphe Appia (1862-1928)
  • Organic Unity (1921)
  • 18 Georg Kaiser (1878-1945)
  • Man in the Tunnel, or: The Poet and the Play (1923)
  • 19 Alain Locke (1886-1954)
  • The Negro and the American Stage (1926)
  • The Drama of Negro Life (1926)
  • 20 W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
  • "Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre": The Story of a Little Theatre Movement (1926)
  • Criteria of Negro Art (1926)
  • 21 Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
  • The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (1930)
  • Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction (ca. 1936)
  • Alienation Effect in Chinese Acting (1936)
  • 22 Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
  • Memoranda on Masks (1932)
  • Second Thoughts (1932)
  • A Dramatist's Notebook (1933)
  • 23 Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
  • Plays (1934)
  • 24 Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
  • Characteristics of Negro Expression (1934)
  • 25 Federico Garc?-a Lorca (1899-1936)
  • The Prophecy of Lorca (1934)
  • 26 Antonin Artaud (1896-1949)
  • On the Balinese Theatre (1938)
  • No More Masterpieces (1938)
  • 27 Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
  • What is Epic Theatre? (1939)
  • 28 Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959)
  • The Essence of Tragedy (1939)
  • 29 Karel Bru?!fk (1913-2004)
  • Signs in the Chinese Theatre (1939)
  • Part III 1940-1960:.Introduction to Part III
  • 30 Jindich Honzl (1894-1953)
  • Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre (1940)
  • 31 Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)
  • Some Thoughts on Playwrighting (1941)
  • 32 Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
  • Tragedy and the Common Man (1949)
  • 33 T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
  • Poetry and Drama (1950)
  • 34 Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
  • The Timeless World of the Play (1951)
  • 35 John Gassner (1903-1967)
  • "Enlightenment" and Modern Drama (1954)
  • 36 Friedrich D8rrenmatt (1921-1990)
  • Problems of the Theatre (1955)
  • 37 Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)
  • Green Goddess of Realism (1956)
  • 38 Eric Bentley (b. 1916)
  • What is Theatre? A Point of View (1956)
  • 39 Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
  • Specific Forms of Drama (1957)
  • 40 Eug+ne Ionesco (1909-1994)
  • The Avant-Garde Theatre (1960)
  • 41 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
  • Beyond Bourgeois Theatre (1960)
  • Part IV: 1960-1980:.Introduction to Part IV
  • 42 Martin Esslin (1918-2002)
  • The Theatre of the Absurd (19

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.