Theatre/Theory/Theatre

The major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Syinka and Havel. The best available collection of theoretical writing on the theatre from both the Eastern and Western traditions.

Daniel Gerould is the Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He has translated the plays of Witkiewicz and written books and articles about twentieth century avant--garde theatre. He is the author of Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore and editor of Slavic and East European Performances and of the Polish and Eastern European Theatre Archives for Harwood.

Foreword

Introduction: The Politics of Theatre Theory

11

(32)

Daniel Gerould

Aristotle: The Poetics (4th c. B.C.)

43

(25)

Ingram Bywater

Horace: The Art of Poetry (1st c. B.C.)

68

(16)

John Conington

Bharata: Natyasastra (1st c. A.D.?)

84

(12)

Adya Rangacharya

Zeami: On the Art of the No Drama (15th c.)

96

(12)

J. Thomas Rimer

Yamazaki Masakazu

Lodovico Castelvetro: The Poetics of Aristole (1570)

108

(9)

Allan H. Gilbert

Philip Sidney: The Defense of Poesy (1583)

117

(11)

Giambattista Guarini: The Compendium of Tragicomic Poetry (1599)

128

(7)

Allan H. Gilbert

Felix Lope de Vega: The New Art of Writing Plays (1609)

135

(18)

Marvin Carlson

Francois Hedelin, abbe d'Aubignac: The Whole Art of the Stage (1657)146

Pierre Corneille: Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place (1660)

153

(15)

Donald Schier

Jobn Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668)

168

(11)

Li Yu: Casual Expressions of Idle Feelings (1671)

179

(10)

Faye C. Fie

William H. Sun

Denis Diderot: Conversations on The Natural Son (1757)

189

(13)

Derek Coltman

The Paradox of Acting (1773-8)

198

(4)

Walter Herries Pollock

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: An Epistle to Mr. d'Alembert (1758)

202

(17)

Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare (1765)

219

(17)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9)

236

(12)

Helen Zimmern

Friedrich Schiller:The Stage as a Moral Institution (1784)

248

(14)

On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy (1803)

255

(7)

Charles E. Passage

Mme de Stael: Of The Dramatic Art (1810)

262

(6)

August Wilbelm Schlegel: Lectures on Dramatic Art (1809-11)

268

(8)

John Black

Jobann Wolfgang Goethe: Shakespeare Once Again (1815)

276

(12)

Ellen von Nardroff

Ernest H. von Nardroff

Arthur Schopenbauer: The World as Will and Idea (1819/1844)

288

(10)

R. B. Haldane

J. Kemp

Victor Hugo: Preface to Cromwell (1827)

298

(16)

Barry V. Daniels

Georg Wilbelm Friedrich Hegel: The Philosophy of Fine Art (1835)

314

(13)

F. P. B. Osmaston

Adam Mickiewicz: Slavic Drama (1843)

327

(9)

Daniel Gerould

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy (1872)

336

(15)

Clifton P. Fadiman

Emile Zola: Preface to Therese Raquin (1873)

351

(17)

Kathleen Boutall

Naturalism in the Theatre (1881)

358

(10)

Jane House

August Strindberg: Preface to Miss Julie (1888)

368

(13)

Harry G. Carlson

Maurice Maeterlinck: The Tragical in Daily Life (1896)

381

(25)

Alfred Sutro

Gordon Craig: The Actor and the Ubermarionette (1907)

390

(9)

William Butler Yeats: The Tragic Theatre (1910)

399

(7)

Vsevolod Meyerhold: The Fairground Booth (1912)

406

(13)

Edward Braun

Filippo Marinetti: The Variety Theatre (1913)

419

(14)

R. W. Flint

Bernard Shaw: Tolstoy: Tragedian or Comedian? (1921)

427

(6)

Antonin Artaud: The Theater and Its Double (1938)

433

(11)

Mary Caroline Richards

Bertolt Brecht: The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (1930) Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting (1935)

444

(18)

John Willett

Augusto Boal: Theater of the Oppressed (1974)

462

(12)

Charles A.

Maria-Odilia Leal McBride

Wole Soyinka: Drama and the African World-view (1976)

474

(9)

Vaclav Havel: Writing for the Stage (1986)

483

(8)

Paul Wilson

Bibliography

491

(1)

Acknowledgments

492

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