Modern Theories of Drama A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre, 1850-1990

Name: Modern Theories of Drama A Selection of Writings on Drama and Theatre, 1850-1990
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ISBN: 9780198711391

ISBN-10: 0198711395

ISBN-13: 9780198711391

Edition: 1998

Authors: George W. Brandt

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Modern Theories of Drama concentrates on the developments in dramatic theory over the last 150 years, providing a crucial resource for students of drama and theatre studies. From Aristotle's Poetics onwards, drama - especially 'serious' drama - has been encased in a framework of theory, although the more popular forms of theatre have often chosen to ignore this. However, from the eighteenth century until the present day, theoretical questioning of the 'rules' (Aristotelian and other) has constantly grown in scope and strength. This attack was to become more and more vigorous in the second half of the nineteenth century and reach gale force in the twentieth. Different audience profiles and…

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List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/18/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




Introduction



The Work of Art of the Future



The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations



The Law of the Drama



The Comic in Situations



Melodrama



For a Theatre of Situations



Theatre Problems



Theatre Without a Conscience



Are There Universals of Performance in Myth, Ritual, and Drama?



Varieties of Realism



The Relationship of Dramatic Art to its Age and Allied Matters



NaturalismAugust Strind



Author's Preface to



Against the Well-Made Play



Death of a Salesman': A Modern Tragedy?



Anti-Naturalism



The Tragical in Daily Life



The Theatre



Certain Nobel Plays of Japan



On the Theatre


The Fairground Booth



The Art of the Theatre


The First Dialogue



Organic Unity



Memoranda on Masks



A Dramatist's NotebookAugust



Author's Note to `A Dream Play'



On the Futility of the `Theatrical' in the Theatre



Preface and Prologue to `The Breasts of Tiresias'



Preface to Die Unsterblichen (`The Immortals')



Preface to `Methusalem, The Eternal Bourgeois'



The Futurist Synthetic Theatre



On a New Type of Play



The Theatre of Cruelty


First Manifesto



An End to Masterpieces



The Theatre's New Testament



The Holy Theatre: Happenings



The London Controversy



Part IV



Letter to a Creative Collaborator



The Programme of the Proletarian Theatre



The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre



A Short Organum for the Theatre



The Material and the Models



Poetics of the Oppressed



Political Dynamics: The Feminisms



SemioticsJ



Dynamics of the Sign in the TheatreUmberto Eco


Semiotics of Theatrical Performance



Psychic Polyphony



The Signs of Stage and Screen



Avant-Garde Theatre and Semiology


A Few Practices and the Theory Behind ThemSelect


Bibliography


Index