Theatre/theory/theatre : the major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
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Theatre/theory/theatre : the major critical texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
Applause, c2000
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- : paper
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Bibliography: p. [491]-492
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: Cloth ISBN 9781557833099
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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.
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: paper ISBN 9781557835277
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Available for the First Time in Paperback!THFrom Aristotle's EPoeticsE to Vaclav Havel the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work ETheatre/Theory/TheatreE collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists a poets playwrights directors and philosophers a whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice excerpts spanning centuries we see an ongoing dialogue and exchange of ideas between actors and directors like Craig and Meyerhold and writers such as Nietzsche and Yeats. Each of Gerould's introductory essays shows fascinating insight into both the life and the theory of the author. From Horace to Soyinka Corneille to Brecht this is an indispensable compendium of the greatest dramatic theory ever written.
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