Routledge drama anthology and sourcebook : from modernism to contemporary performance / edited by Maggie B. Gale and John F. Deeney ; with Dan Rebellato.
Contributor(s): Gale, Maggie B. (Maggie Barbara)
| Deeney, John F | Rebellato, Dan.
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Description: xxii, 856 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415466622.Subject(s): Drama -- 19th century | Drama -- 20th century | Drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 792.01 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebookis a groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre, from the late Nineteenth Century to contemporary performance practice.
Each of the book's five sections comprises a selection of plays and performance texts that define their period, reproduced in full and accompanied by key theoretical writings of performers and critics that inform and contextualise their reading. Substantial introductions from experts in the field also provide these sections with an overview of the works and their significance.
The works span :
Naturalism and Symbolism The Historical Avant-Garde Early Political Theatre The Performance of Ideology Contemporary PerformanceThis textbook provides an unprecedented collection of comprehensive resource materials which will facilitate in-depth critical analysis. It enables a dialogue between Chekhov, Strindberg, Lorca, Marinetti and Artaud, Brecht, Churchill, Fornes, Ravenhill and Gómez-Peňa, amongst many other key practitioners.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Naturalism and Symbolism : Early Modernist Practice. Introductory Essay / Dan Rebellato -- Thérèse Raquin / Emile Zola -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Three Sisters / Anton Chekhov -- When We Dead Awaken / Henrik Ibsen -- Interior / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Naturalism in the Theatre / Emile Zola -- Preface to Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- A New Art of the Stage / Arthur Symons --The Modern Drama / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Tragedy in Everyday Life / Maurice Maeterlinck -- On the Complete Pointlessness of Accurate Staging / Pierre Quillard -- Part 2. The Historical Avant-Garde : Performance and Innovation. Introductory Essay / Maggie B. Gale -- King Ubu / Alfred Jarry -- The Breasts of Tiresias / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The Spurt of Blood / Antonin Artaud -- Murder the Women's Hope / Oskar Kokoshka -- Bachelor Apartment / Umberto Boccioni -- Genius and Culture / Umberto Boccioni -- Feet / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- Genius in a Jiffy or a Dadology / Raoul Hausmann -- The Public / Federico García Lorca -- The Meaning of the Music Hall / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- No More Masterpieces and Theatre and The Plague [edited] / Antonin Artaud -- The First Surrealist Manifesto and The Second Surrealist Manifesto / André Breton -- Futurist Scenography / Enrico Prampolini -- Theater, Circus, Variety / Laszlo Moholy Nagy -- Part 3. Early Political Theatres. Introductory Essay / Maggie B. Gale and John F. Deeney -- How the Vote Was Won / Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John -- Hoppla, We're Alive! / Ernst Toller -- Love on the Dole / Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood -- E=MC² / Hallie Flanagan -- Johnny Noble / Ewan McColl -- Suffrage Theatre : Community Activism and Political Commitment / Susan Carlson -- The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility / Walter Benjamin -- A Street Scene / Bertolt Brecht -- Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction / Bertolt Brecht -- Rehabilitating Realism / Sheila Stowell -- The Author as Producer / Terry Eagleton -- Part 4. Ideology and Performance/The Performance of Ideology. Introductory Essay / John F. Deeney -- Blues for Mr Charlie / James Baldwin -- The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil / John McGrath -- Enter the Night / Marie Irene Fornés -- Far Away / Caryl Churchill -- Scenes from Family Life / Mark Ravenhill -- Theory of Cultural Production / Alan Sinfield -- The Theory and Practice of Political Theatre / John McGrath -- Fortynine Asides for a Tragic Theatre / Howard Barker -- Re-acting (to) Empire / Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins -- Me, My iBook and Writing in America / Mark Ravenhill -- Part 5. Contemporary Performance/The Contemporaneity of Practice. Introductory Essay / Maggie B. Gale and John F. Deeney -- Stage Directions for Stories From The Nerve Bible [excerpts] / Laurie Anderson -- Polygraph / Robert Lepage and Marie Bressard -- 'Confess to everything', a note on Speak Bitterness, and Speak Bitterness / Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment -- The Story of M / SuAndi -- Supernintendo Ranchero / Guillermo Gómez Peña -- Myth Today / Roland Barthes -- The Divine Interference of Images and The Strategy of the Real / Jean Baudrillard -- Aspects : Text-space-time-body-media / Hans Thies Lehmann -- Dramaturgy and Montage / Eugenio Barba -- Laurie Anderson In Interview / edited by Nicholas Zarbrugg -- Away from The Surveillance cameras of the Art World : Strategies for Collaboration and Community Activism / Guillermo Gómez Peña.
This is a compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. Each of the book's parts comprises full reproductions of the plays that defined the period and key critical writings that inform and contextualise their reading.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1 Naturalism and Symbolism: Early Modernist Practice
- Introductory Essay
- 1 Thérèse Raquin
- 2 Miss Julie
- 3 Three Sisters
- 4 When We Dead Awaken
- 5 Interior
- 6 Naturalism in the Theatre
- 7 Preface to Miss Julie
- 8 A New Art of the Stage
- 9 The Modern Drama
- 10 Tragedy in Everyday Life
- 11 On the Complete Pointlessness of Accurate Staging
- Part 2 The Historical Avant-Garde: Performance and Innovation
- Introductory Essay
- 12 King Ubu
- 13 The Breasts of Tiresias
- 14 The Spurt of Blood
- 15 Murder the Women's Hope
- 16 Batchelor Apartment
- 17 Genius and Culture
- 18 Feet
- 19 Genius in a Jiffy or a Dadology
- 20 The Public
- 21 The Meaning of the Music Hall
- 22 No More Masterpieces and Theatre and The Plague [edited]
- 23 The First Surrealist Manifesto and The Second Surrealist Manifesto
- 24 Futurist Scenography
- 25 Theater, Circus, Variety
- Part 3 Early Political Theatres
- Introductory Essay
- 26 How the Vote Was Won
- 27 Hoppla, We're Alive!
- 28 Love on the Dole
- 29 E=MC 2
- 30 Johnny Noble
- 31 Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment
- 32 The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
- 33 A Street Scene
- 34 Theatre for Pleasure
- 35 Rehabilitating Realism
- 36 The Author as Producer
- Part 4 Ideology and Performance/The Performance of Ideology
- Introductory Essay
- 37 Blues for Mr Charlie
- 38 The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
- 39 Enter the Night
- 40 Far Away
- 41 Scenes from Family Life
- 42 Theory of Cultural Production
- 43 The Theory and Practice of Political Theatre
- 44 Forty Nine Asides for a Tragic Theatre
- 45 Introduction: Re-acting (to) Empire
- 46 Me, My iBook and Writing in America
- Part 5 Contemporary Performance/The Contemporaneity of Practice
- Introductory Essay
- 47 Stage Directions for Stories From The Nerve Bible [excerpts]
- 48 Polygraph
- 49 'Confess to everything, a note on Speak Bitterness, and Speak Bitterness (Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment)
- 50 The Story of M
- 51 Supernintendo Ranchero
- 52 Myth Today
- 53 The Divine Interference of Images and The Strategy of the Real
- 54 Aspects: Text-space-time-body-media
- 55 Dramaturgy and Montage
- 56 Laurie Anderson In Interview
- 57 Away from The Surveillance cameras of the Art World: Strategies for Collaboration and Community Activism
- Index
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
Here is an anthology of plays and criticism that all teachers of drama should take seriously. The fresh angles and approaches the volume offers on topics such as naturalism, the historical avant-garde, and breakthrough works by innovative performance artists (e.g., Laurie Anderson, SuAndi) all argue in favor of this collection as required reading in courses on modern stagecraft. Those who need more convincing should take note of the book's organization. Each section begins with a meaty, informative essay. Each section includes striking visuals from performances in, for example, Toronto, Stockholm, and Berlin (the last of a German production of Chekhov's Three Sisters). The Ibsen Theater in Skien, Norway, supplied a shot from a 2006 production of Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken, which the editors reprint in lieu of oft-anthologized works (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler). The first play provided in full, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin--in which the author deliberately omitted the contrivances dominating the French stage of the day--prefigures the book's emphasis on drama's ability to rouse, refresh, and renew the soul. The reader is also shown modes of dramatic expression benefiting from the effects of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and even the cell phone. This is up-to-date stuff. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. P. Wolfe University of Missouri--St. LouisAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Maggie B. Gale is Chair of Drama at the University of Manchester (UK). She is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Actress;author of West End Women: Women on the London Stage 1918-1962, and J.B.Priestley from the series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists.
John F. Deeney is Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Editor of Writing Live and author of the book Mark Ravenhillfrom the series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists.