The Routledge Drama Anthology

Modernism to Contemporary Performance
Herausgeber: Gale, Maggie B; Deeney, John F

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Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Drama Anthology (second edition) presents performance texts from the early 20th century through to contemporary works. A combination of well-known names (Strindberg, Artaud, Brecht) and popular performance texts (Etchells, Gomez Pena, Wooster Group) ensures that this new edition retains and widens its broad scope. The Anthology is divided into five accessible sections, which contain a selection of related critical readings alongside the play-texts. It is an outstanding resource for teachers and students alike, selecting from among the best of modern and contemporary drama to provide a versatile collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1619g
• ISBN-13: 9780415724166
• ISBN-10: 0415724163
• Artikelnr.: 43747125

Autorenporträt

Maggie B. Gale is Chair of Drama at the University of Manchester (UK). She is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Actress; author of West End Women: Women on the London Stage 1918-1962, and J.B.Priestley from the series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. John F. Deeney is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Editor of Writing Live and author of the book Mark Ravenhill from the series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Maggie B. Gale Part
1: Naturalism and Symbolism: Early Modernist Practice Introduction - Dan
Rebellato Play and Performance Texts 1. Therese Raquin (Emile Zola) 2.
Miss Julie (August Strindberg) 3. Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov) 4. When We
Dead Awaken (Henrik Ibsen) 5. Interior (Maurice Maeterlinck) Critical Texts
6. Naturalism in the Theatre (Emile Zola) 7. Preface to Miss Julie (August
Strindberg) 8. A New Art of the Stage (Arthur Symons) 9. The Modern Drama
(Maurice Maeterlinck) 10. Tragedy in Everyday Life (Maurice Maeterlinck)
11. On the Complete Pointlessness of Accurate Staging (Pierre Quillard)
Part 2: The Historical Avant-Garde: Performance and Innovation
Introduction - Maggie B. Gale Play and Performance Texts 1. King Ubu
(Alfred Jarry) 2. The Breasts of Tiresias (Guillaume Apollinaire) 3. The
Spurt of Blood (Antonin Artaud) 4. Murderer the Women's Hope (Oskar
Kokoschka) 5. Genius and Culture and Bachelor Apartment (Umberto Boccioni)
6. Feet (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti) 7. Genius in a Jiffy or a Dadalogy
(Raoul Hausmann) 8. R.U.R. (Karel ¿apek) 9. Six Characters in Search of an
Author (Luigi Pirandello) 10. Dr Faustus Lights the Lights (Gertrude Stein)
Critical Texts 11. The Meaning of the Music Hall (Filippo Tommaso
Marinetti) 12. Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto (Antonin Artaud) 13.
The First Surrealist Manifesto and The Second Surrealist Manifesto (Andre
Breton) 13. Futurist Scenography (Enrico Prampolini) 15. Theater, Circus,
Variety (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) Part 3: Political Theatres Introduction - John
F. Deeney and Maggie B. Gale Play and Performance Texts 1. How the Vote Was
Won (Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John) 2. Hoppla, We're Alive!
(Ernst Toller) 3. The Exception and the Rule (Bertolt Brecht) 4. Meerut
and How to Produce Meerut (The Worker's Theatre Movement) 5. Love on the
Dole (Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood) 6. Blues for Mister Charlie (James
Baldwin) Critical Texts 7. Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and
Political Commitment (Susan Carlson) 8. Rehabilitating Realism (Sheila
Stowell) 9. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter
Benjamin) 10. The Street Scene (Bertolt Brecht) 11. Theatre for Pleasure or
Theatre for Instruction (Bertolt Brecht) 12. On Political Theatre (Michael
Kirby) 13. The Politics Beyond Politics (Howard Barker) Part 4: Late
Modernism Introduction - Carl Lavery Play and Performance Texts 1. The Bald
Soprano (Eugène Ionesco) 2. Endgame (Samuel Beckett) 3. The Balcony (Jean
Genet) 4. The Dumb Waiter (Harold Pinter) Critical Texts 5. 'The Absurdity
of the Absurd' (Martin Esslin) 6 'The London Controversy' (Eugène Ionesco)
7. 'Trying to Understand Endgame' (Theodore Adorno) 8. 'The Theatre of Jean
Genet: A Sociological Study' (Lucien Goldman) Part 5: Contemporary Theatre
and Performance Introduction - John F. Deeney & Maggie B. Gale Play and
Performance Texts 1. Quartet (Heiner Müller) 2. Confess to Everything/Speak
Bitterness (Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment ) 3. Belle Reprieve (Split
Britches) 4. The Story of M (SuAndi) 5. Supernintendo Ranchero (Guillermo
Gòmez Peña) 6. Far Away (Caryl Churchill) 7. Product (Mark Ravenhill)
Critical Texts 8. 'The Death of the Author' (Roland Barthes) 9.
'Dramaturgy' and 'Montage' (Eugenio Barba) 10. 'The Precession of the
Simulacra' (Jean Baudrillard) 11. 'The Emancipated Spectator '(Jacques
Rancière) 12. 'Epilogue' (Hans Thies Lehmann) 13. 'Away from the
Surveillance Cameras of the Art World: Strategies for Collaboration and
Community Activism' (Guillermo Gòmez Peña) 14. Me, My iBook and Writing in
America (Mark Ravenhill)