Table of Contents
Part I: IntroductionThe Work of Art of the Future, Richard WagnerThe Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Georges PoltiThe Law of the Drama, Ferdinand BrunetièreThe Comic in Situations, Henri BergsonMelodrama, Eric BentleyFor a Theatre of Situations, Jean-Paul SartreTheatre Problems, Friedrich DürrenmattTheatre Without a Conscience, Howard BarkerAre There Universals of Performance in Myth, Ritual, and Drama?, Victor TurnerPart II: Varieties of RealismThe Relationship of Dramatic Art to its Age and Allied Matters, Friedrich HebbelNaturalism, Ëmile ZolaAuthor's Preface to ‘Miss Julie', August StrindbergAgainst the Well-Made Play, George Bernard Shaw‘Death of a Salesman': A Modern Tragedy?, Arthur MillerPart III: Anti-NaturalismThe Tragical in Daily Life, Maurice MaeterlinckThe Theatre, William Butler YeatsCertain Nobel Plays of Japan, William Butler YeatsOn the Theatre: The Fairground Booth, Vsevolod Emilievich MeyerholdThe Art of the Theatre: The First Dialogue, Edward Gordon CraigOrganic Unity, Adolphe AppiaMemoranda on Masks, Eugene O'NeillA Dramatist's Notebook, Eugene O'NeillAuthor's Note to ‘A Dream Play', August StrindbergOn the Futility of the ‘Theatrical' in the Theatre, Alfred JarryPreface and Prologue to ‘The Breasts of Tiresias', Guillaume ApollinairePreface to Die Unsterblichen (‘The Immortals'), Yvan GollPreface to ‘Methusalem, The Eternal Bourgeois', Yvan GollThe Futurist Synthetic Theatre, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, with Emilio Settimelli and Bruno CorraOn a New Type of Play, Stanislaw Ignacy WitkiewiczThe Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto, Antonin ArtaudAn End to Masterpieces, Antonin ArtaudThe Theatre's New Testament, Jerry GrotowskiThe Holy Theatre: Happenings, Peter BrookThe London Controversy: Tynan v. Ionesco, Eugène IonescoPart IV: Political TheatreLetter to a Creative Collaborator, Ernst TollerThe Programme of the Proletarian Theatre, Erwin PiscatorThe Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre, Bertolt BrechtA Short Organum for the Theatre, Bertolt BrechtThe Material and the Models, Peter WeissPoetics of the Oppressed, Augusto BoalPolitical Dynamics: The Feminisms, Michelene WandorPart V: SemioticsDynamics of the Sign in the Theatre, Jindrich HonzlSemiotics of Theatrical Performance, Umberto EcoPsychic Polyphony, Marvin CarlsonThe Signs of Stage and Screen, Martin EsslinAvant-Garde Theatre and Semiology: A Few Practices and the Theory Behind Them, Patrice PavisSelect BibliographyIndex
