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 deve...

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