| Description |
ix, 523 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [503]-513) and index. |
| Contents |
En Garde! The theatrical avant-garde in historical, intellectual, and cultural context / Bert Cardullo -- Interior (1891) / Maurice Maeterlinck -- "The Modern Drama" (1904) / Maurice Maeterlinck -- The Wayfarer (1910) / Valery Briusov -- "Against Naturalism in the Theater" (1902) / Valery Briusov -- King Ubu (1896) / Alfred Jarry -- "Theater Questions" (1897) / Alfred Jarry -- The Ghost Sonata (1907) / August Strindberg -- from Zones of the Spirit (1907) / August Strindberg -- The Yellow Sound (1909) / Wassliy Kandinsky. |
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"On Stage Composition" (1912) / Wassily Kandinsky -- Genius and Culture (1915) / Umberto Boccioni -- Detonation (1915) / Francesco Cangiullo -- Feet (1915) / Filippo Marinetti -- "The Futurist Synthetic Theater, 1915: (1915) / Filippo Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, and Bruno Corra -- The Beggar (1912) / Reinhard Sorge -- "Two Superdramas: (1918) / Yvan Goll -- The Gas Heart (1920) / Tristan Tzara -- Dada Manifesto, 1918 (1918) / Tristan Tzara -- The Cuttlefish (1922) / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz. |
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"On a New Type of Play: (1920) / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- The Mysteries of Love (1927) / Roger Vitrac -- First Surrealist Manifesto (1924) / Andre Breton -- The Spurt of Blood (1925) / Antonin Artaud -- "No More Masterpieces" (1938) / Antonin Artaud -- Christmas at the Ivanovs' (1938) / Aleksandr Vvedensky -- "The Oberiu Manifesto" (1928) / Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Vvedensky, and others -- Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) / Gertrude Stein -- "Plays" (1934) / Gertrude Stein -- The Invasion (1949) / Arthur Adamov -- "The Theater of the Absurd" (1961) / Martin Esslin. |
| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century.
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Experimental drama -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Cardullo, Bert.
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Knopf, Robert, 1961-
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| ISBN |
0300085257 cloth |
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0300085265 paperback |
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