Modern theories of drama: a selection of writings on drama and theatre, 1850-1990/
edited and annotated by George W. Brandt.
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- xxii, 334 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and index.
Part I: Introduction The Work of Art of the Future, Richard Wagner The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Georges Polti The Law of the Drama, Ferdinand Brunetiere The Comic in Situations, Henri Bergson Melodrama, Eric Bentley For a Theatre of Situations, Jean-Paul Sartre Theatre Problems, Friedrich Durrenmatt Theatre Without a Conscience, Howard Barker Are There Universals of Performance in Myth, Ritual, and Drama?, Victor Turner
Part II: Varieties of Realism The Relationship of Dramatic Art to its Age and Allied Matters, Friedrich Hebbel Naturalism, Emile Zola Author's Preface to `Miss Julie', August Strindberg Against the Well-Made Play, George Bernard Shaw `Death of a Salesman': A Modern Tragedy?, Arthur Miller
Part III: Anti-Naturalism The Tragical in Daily Life, Maurice Maeterlinck The Theatre, William Butler Yeats Certain Nobel Plays of Japan, William Butler Yeats On the Theatre: The Fairground Booth, Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold The Art of the Theatre: The First Dialogue, Edward Gordon Craig Organic Unity, Adolphe Appia Memoranda on Masks, Eugene O'Neill A Dramatist's Notebook, Eugene O'Neill Author's Note to `A Dream Play', August Strindberg On the Futility of the `Theatrical' in the Theatre, Alfred Jarry Preface and Prologue to `The Breasts of Tiresias', Guillaume Apollinaire Preface to Die Unsterblichen (`The Immortals'), Yvan Goll Preface to `Methusalem, The Eternal Bourgeois', Yvan Goll The Futurist Synthetic Theatre, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, with Emilio Settimelli and Bruno Corra On a New Type of Play, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz The Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto, Antonin Artaud An End to Masterpieces, Antonin Artaud The Theatre's New Testament, Jerry Grotowski The Holy Theatre: Happenings, Peter Brook The London Controversy: Tynan v. Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco
Part IV: Political Theatre Letter to a Creative Collaborator, Ernst Toller The Programme of the Proletarian Theatre, Erwin Piscator The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre, Bertolt Brecht A Short Organum for the Theatre, Bertolt Brecht The Material and the Models, Peter Weiss Poetics of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal Political Dynamics: The Feminisms, Michelene Wandor
Part V: Semiotics Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre, Jindrich Honzl Semiotics of Theatrical Performance, Umberto Eco Psychic Polyphony, Marvin Carlson The Signs of Stage and Screen, Martin Esslin Avant-Garde Theatre and Semiology: A Few Practices and the Theory Behind Them, Patrice Pavis