Download or read book Sources of Dramatic Theory Volume 1 Plato to Congreve written by Michael J. Sidnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks, through the Renaissance up to the late seventeenth century, compiled and edited for students of drama and theater. There are substantial extracts from twenty-eight writers including Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Scaliger, Castelvetro, Guarini, Sidney, Jonson, Corneille, Racine, Dryden and Congreve. The compilers have chosen writers who present detailed arguments about issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theater. Many of the texts have been freshly translated and all have been newly annotated and introduced by the compilers, who draw attention to recurrent themes by a system of cross-references. Michael Sidnell's useful introduction explores the issues that frequently concern these writers and practitioners: the nature of imitation, the relation of dramatic text to live performance, the effect of stage action on audience emotion and behavior--issues that still concern critics and theorists of drama today. Later volumes will cover the period from Diderot to Victor Hugo, modern dramatic theory, and performance theory.
Download or read book Sources of Dramatic Theory Volume 1 Plato to Congreve written by Michael J. Sidnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks to the late seventeenth century for students of dramatic theory who require more than representative snippets. All the texts included here have been newly annotated and many have been specially translated for this volume.
Download or read book Sources of Dramatic Theory Volume 2 Voltaire to Hugo written by Michael J. Sidnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in the series Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theatre. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire, Diderot, Goldoni, Dr Johnson, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Coleridge.Many of the texts have been newly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced.Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.
Download or read book Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century written by Andrew Kimbrough and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sources of Dramatic Theory written by Michael J. Sidnell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theory and Analysis of Drama written by Manfred Pfister and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
Download or read book Theories of the Theatre written by Marvin A. Carlson and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **** Expanded edition of the work originally published by Cornell U. Press in 1984 and endorsed by BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Critical Theory and Performance written by Janelle G. Reinelt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance
Download or read book A Narratology of Drama written by Christine Schwanecke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume argues against Gérard Genette’s theory that there is an “insurmountable opposition” between drama and narrative and shows that the two forms of storytelling have been productively intertwined throughout literary history. Building on the idea that plays often incorporate elements from other genres, especially narrative ones, the present study theorises drama as a fundamentally narrative genre. Guided by the question of how drama tells stories, the first part of the study delineates the general characteristics of dramatic narration and zooms in on the use of narrative forms in drama. The second part proposes a history of dramatic storytelling from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century that transcends conventional genre boundaries. Close readings of exemplary British plays provide an overview of the dominant narrative modes in each period and point to their impact in the broader cultural and historical context of the plays. Finally, the volume argues that throughout history, highly narrative plays have had a performative power that reached well beyond the stage: dramatic storytelling not only reflects socio-political realities, but also largely shapes them.
Download or read book The Poetics of Aristotle written by Aristotle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."
Download or read book T S Eliot s Dramatic Theory and Practice written by Carol H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Anatomy of Drama written by Martin Esslin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theatre Theory Theatre written by Daniel Gerould and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists – poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers – 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.
Download or read book Dramatic Theory for Writers Teachers and Students written by Robert Gardner, EdD and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on years of research, is an examination of the incredible fascination the story-telling forms have on the human imagination. The text, written by an award-winning television writer and expert curriculum designer, brings together a comprehensive array of information which makes the underlying structure of the dramatic form understandable. Dramatic Theory for Writers, Teachers, and Students will be of assistance to those have been called upon to teach a course on dramatic theory. It will be of equal use to writers as they wrestle with the complexities of the form. At the same time it may prove valuable to the general reader who wishes to understand why we willingly return again and again to a form which is essentially immutable
Download or read book Dramatic Theory written by David Coley and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic Theory takes readers on a comprehensive journey through the rich and varied landscape of dramatic theory. Organized by key topics and presented chronologically, this book connects writers and theorists across different eras, revealing how their discussions have evolved and intertwined. Six fundamental questions are explored, ranging from the nature and purpose of theatre to the implications of performance on society. Each chapter delves into these essential questions, offering insights into how theoretical discourse has influenced theatrical styles and practices over time. From Aristotle's foundational Poetics to avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, Dramatic Theory covers a wide array of perspectives and debates. Issues of identity, the political implications of performance, and the subjective nature of theatrical quality are thoroughly examined. The book also investigates how meaning is constructed on stage and explores modern performance theory's redefinition of theatre. By engaging with the vibrant, never-ending conversations of dramatic theory, this text inspires a deeper understanding and appreciation of the performing arts.
Download or read book Theatre in Theory 1900 2000 written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in Theory is the most complete anthology documenting 20th-century dramatic and performance theory to date, offering a rich variety of perspectives from the century’s most prominent playwrights, directors, scholars, and philosophers. Includes major theoretical and critical manifestos, hypotheses, and theories from the field Wide-ranging and broadly constructed, this text has both interdisciplinary and global appeal Includes a thematic index, section introductions, and supporting commentary Helps students, teachers, and practitioners to think critically about the nature of theatre
Download or read book An Introduction to Dramatic Theory written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
