Theories of the Theatre : : A Historical and Critical Survey, from the Greeks to the Present / / Marvin A. Carlson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Carlson, Marvin A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: Expanded Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)

Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the Expanded Edition -- 1. Aristotle and the Greeks -- 2. Roman and Late Classic Theory -- 3. The Medieval Period -- 4. The Italian Renaissance -- 5. The Spanish Renaissance -- 6. The French Renaissance -- 7. The Renaissance in England and the Nether lands -- 8. Seventeenth-Century France -- 9. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century in England -- 10. Eighteenth-Century France -- 11. Germany to Hegel -- 12. Italy and France in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 13. Nineteenth-Century England -- 14. Russian Theory to 1900 -- 15. The Germanic Tradition in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 16. France in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 17. The Early Twentieth Century, 1900-1914 -- 18. The Twentieth Century, 1914-1930 -- 19. The Twentieth Century, 1930-1950 -- 20. The Twentieth Century, 1950-1965 -- 21. The Twentieth Century, 1965-1980 -- 22. The Twentieth Century since 1980 -- Index