| Description |
xxii, 856 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Naturalism and Symbolism : Early Modernist Practice. Introductory Essay / Dan Rebellato -- Therese Raquin / Emile Zola -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- Three Sisters / Anton Chekhov -- When We Dead Awaken / Henrik Ibsen -- Interior / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Naturalism in the Theatre / Emile Zola -- Preface to Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- A New Art of the Stage / Arthur Symons -- The Modern Drama / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Tragedy in Everyday Life / Maurice Maeterlinck -- On the Complete Pointlessness of Accurate Staging / Pierre Quillard -- Part 2. The Historical Avant-Garde : Performance and Innovation. Introductory Essay / Maggie B. Gale -- King Ubu / Alfred Jarry -- The Breasts of Tiresias / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The Spurt of Blood / Antonin Artaud -- Murder the Women's Hope / Oskar Kokoshka -- Bachelor Apartment / Umberto Boccioni -- Genius and Culture / Umberto Boccioni -- Feet / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- Genius in a Jiffy or a Dadology / Raoul Hausmann -- The Public / Federico Garcia Lorca -- The Meaning of the Music Hall / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- No More Masterpieces and Theatre and The Plague [edited] / Antonin Artaud -- The First Surrealist Manifesto and The Second Surrealist Manifesto / Andre Breton -- Futurist Scenography / Enrico Prampolini -- Theater, Circus, Variety / Laszlo Moholy Nagy -- Part 3. Early Political Theatres. Introductory Essay / Maggie B. Gale and John F. Deeney -- How the Vote Was Won / Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John -- Hoppla, We're Alive! / Ernst Toller -- Love on the Dole / Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood -- E=MCp2s / Hallie Flanagan -- Johnny Noble / Ewan McColl -- Suffrage Theatre : Community Activism and Political Commitment / Susan Carlson -- The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility / Walter Benjamin -- A Street Scene / Bertolt Brecht -- Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction / Bertolt Brecht -- Rehabilitating Realism / Sheila Stowell -- The Author as Producer / Terry Eagleton -- Part 4. Ideology and Performance/ The Performance of Ideology. Introductory Essay / John F. Deeney -- Blues for Mr Charlie / James Baldwin -- The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil / John McGrath -- Enter the Night / Marie Irene Fornes -- Far Away / Caryl Churchill -- Scenes from Family Life / Mark Ravenhill -- Theory of Cultural Production / Alan Sinfield -- The Theory and Practice of Political Theatre / John McGrath -- Fortynine Asides for a Tragic Theatre / Howard Barker -- Re-acting (to) Empire / Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins -- Me, My iBook and Writing in America / Mark Ravenhill -- Part 5. Contemporary Performance/ The Contemporaneity of Practice. Introductory Essay / Maggie B. Gale and John F. Deeney -- Stage Directions for Stories From The Nerve Bible [excerpts] / Laurie Anderson -- Polygraph / Robert Lepage and Marie Bressard -- 'Confess to everything', a note on Speak Bitterness, and Speak Bitterness / Tim Etchells/ Forced Entertainment -- The Story of M / SuAndi -- Supernintendo Ranchero / Guillermo Gomez Peņa -- Myth Today / Roland Barthes -- The Divine Interference of Images and The Strategy of the Real / Jean Baudrillard -- Aspects : Text-space-time-body-media / Hans Thies Lehmann -- Dramaturgy and Montage / Eugenio Barba -- Laurie Anderson In Interview / edited by Nicholas Zarbrugg -- Away from The Surveillance cameras of the Art World : Strategies for Collaboration and Community Activism / Guillermo Gomez Peņa. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This is a compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. Each of the book's parts comprises full reproductions of the plays that defined the period and key critical writings that inform and contextualise their reading. |
| Subject |
Drama -- 19th century.
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Drama -- 20th century.
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Drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Gale, Maggie B. (Maggie Barbara), 1963-
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Deeney, John F.
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Rebellato, Dan, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9780415466622 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0415466628 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780415466066 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0415466067 (hc : alk. paper) |
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