Theatre in Theory 1900-2000 An Anthology [Paperback]

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.

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• 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

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: 1900–1920:.

Introduction to Part I.

1. August Strindberg (1849–1912).

Preface to Miss Julie (1888).

2. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900).

The Decay of Lying: An Observation (1889).

3. Henri Bergson (1859–1941).

Laughter (Le Rire, 1900).

4. Valery Bryusov (1873–1924).

Against Naturalism in the Theatre (from “Unnecessary Truth”) (1902).

5. Romain Rolland (1866–1944).

The People’s Theatre (1903).

6. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949).

The Modern Drama (1904).

7. Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914).

Colored Men and Women on the Stage (1905).

8. Vsevolod Vaslov Meyerhold (1874–1940).

The Naturalistic Theatre and the Theatre of Mood (1908).