Theatre in theory 1900-2000 : an anthology /
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Malden, MA :
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 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
- pt. 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
- pt. 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
- pt. 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
- pt. 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.