Lessing's Dramatic Theory
Author: John George Robertson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1939
Total Pages: 568
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Author: John George Robertson
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1939
Total Pages: 568
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manfred Pfister
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521423830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManfred 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.
Author: Michael J. Sidnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-05-09
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521326940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barrett Harper Clark
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 560
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 532
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laurence P. Senelick
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-09-10
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1477302980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough younger than most European theatrical traditions, the Russian professional theater has generated an exciting body of criticism and theory which until recently has remained unknown or nearly inaccessible in the West. This anthology presents a selection of important Russian writing on the aesthetics of drama and the theater from 1828 to 1914. The focus of these essays, most published here for the first time in English, is on the so-called Crisis in the Theater of 1904 to 1914, a lively debate between the symbolists and the naturalists that evoked brilliant polemic writing from Meyerhold, Bely, Bryusov, and others. Along with Chekhov's amusing critique of Sarah Bernhardt ("monstrously facile!") and Ivanov's abstruse analysis of the essence of tragedy, the essays form a running commentary on the development of the Russian theater: Pushkin on his predecessors, Gogol on his own work, Belinsky on Gogol, Sleptsov on Ostrovsky and Leskov, Bely on Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard ("enervated people, trying to forget the terror of life"), the symbolists on one another. Each selection is printed in its entirety, with extensive notes, and a lengthy introduction places all the pieces within their historical and cultural contexts to comprise a brief history of Russian dramatic theory before the revolution. This volume is essential reading for all who wish to extend their knowledge of the Russian contribution to theatrical history, theory, and criticism.
Author: Bernard Frank Dukore
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1028
ISBN-13: 9780030911521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pauline Kiernan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-07-23
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521633581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did Shakespeare write drama? Did he have specific reasons for his choice of this art form? Did he have clearly defined aesthetic aims in what he wanted drama to do - and why? Pauline Kiernan opens up a new area of debate for Shakespearean criticism in showing that a radical, complex defence of drama which challenged the Renaissance orthodox view of poetry, history and art can be traced in Shakespeare's plays and poems. This study, first published in 1996, examines different stages in the canon to show that far from being restricted by the 'limitations' of drama, Shakespeare consciously exploits its capacity to accommodate temporality and change, and its reliance on the physical presence of the actor. This lively, readable book offers an original and scholarly insight into what Shakespeare wanted his drama to do and why.
Author: Barrett Harper Clark
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Published: 1879
Total Pages: 503
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