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

edited with introductions by Daniel Gerould

Applause, c2000

  • : Cloth
  • : paper

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Bibliography: p. [491]-492

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Volume

: Cloth ISBN 9781557833099

Description

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.
Volume

: paper ISBN 9781557835277

Description

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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  • NCID
    BA6370956X
  • ISBN
    • 1557833095
    • 1557835276
  • LCCN
    99068319
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York, London
  • Pages/Volumes
    492 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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