The idea of a theater : study of ten plays; the art of drama in changing perspective /
| Основен автор: | Fergusson, Francis. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
1949.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction: the idea of theater
- Oedipus Rex: the tragic rhythm of action. The myth and the play ; Hero and scapegoat ; Ritual and play ; Sophocles and Euripides, the rationalist ; The imitation of an action ; Analogues of the tragic rhythm
- Bérénice: the action and theater of reason. The tragedy of reason ; Racine's dramaturgy: the rational imitation of action ; The theater of reason in its time and place ; The diminished scene of modern rationalism
- Tristan und Isolde: the action and theater of passion. From Racine to Wagner ; Tristan as myth and as ritual ; The dramaturgy of Tristan ; The theater of the German people ; Racine and Wagner: univocal form and action
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: the analogy of action. Hamlet as an artistic failure ; Hamlet as multiple plot ; Hamlet as ritual and improvisation ; The globe theater and the festival of Dionysos ; Ritual and improvisation: Hamlet's play as the center ; An interpretation of the role of Hamlet ; Analogous action: an interpretation of the play ; Hamlet and the modern theater
- Introduction: The partial perspectives of the modern theater
- Ghosts and The Cherry orchard: the theater of modern realism. The plot of Ghosts ; The tragic rhythm in a small figure ; The tasteless parlor and the stage of Europe ; The plot of The Cherry orchard ; The scene as a basic element in the composition ; Chekhov's histrionic art: an end and a beginning
- The theatricality of Shaw and Pirandello. On Shavian theatricality: the platform and the drawing-room ; Action as theatrical: Six characters in search of an author
- Poetry of the theater and the poet in the theater. The Paris theater between the wars ; The Infernal machine: the myth behind the modern city ; Noah: the theater-poetic reality of the myth ; Murder in the cathedral: the theological scene ; The unrealized idea of a theater
- Appendix. on certain technical concepts used in this study. Plot and action ; Two aspects of the plot: form and purpose ; The notion of analogy ; The histrionic sensibility: the mimetic perception of action.