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Tables of Contents for Theatre/Theory/Theatre
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
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