Sources of dramatic theory
This volume includes major theoretical writings on drama from the Greeks, through the Renaissance up to the late seventeenth century, compiled and edited for students of drama and theater. There are substantial extracts from twenty-eight writers including Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Scaliger, Castelvetro, Guarini, Sidney, Jonson, Corneille, Racine, Dryden and Congreve. The compilers have chosen writers who present detailed arguments about issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theater. Many of the texts have been freshly translated and all have been newly annotated and introduced by the compilers, who draw attention to recurrent themes by a system of cross-references. Michael Sidnell's useful introduction explores the issues that frequently concern these writers and practitioners: the nature of imitation, the relation of dramatic text to live performance, the effect of stage action on audience emotion and behavior--issues that still concern critics and theorists of drama today. Later volumes will cover the period from Diderot to Victor Hugo, modern dramatic theory, and performance theory
Print Book, English, 1991-1994
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1991-1994
OKS Print
Drama
2 volumes ; 24 cm
9780521326940, 9780521326957, 052132694X, 0521326958
21197614
v. 1. Plato to Congreve
v. 2. Voltaire to Hugo. Introduction
Plato
Aristotle
Horace
Donatus
Francesco Robortello
Julius Caesar Scaliger
Bartolomé de Torres Naharro
Antonfrancesco Grazzini ("Il Lasca")
Giambattista Giraldi ("Cinthio")
Ludovico Castelvetro
Richard Edwards
Giambattista Guarini
Sforza Oddi
George Whetstone
Angelo Ingegneri
Lorenzo Giacomini
Sir Philip Sidney
Felix Lope de Vega
Ben Jonson
Thomas Heywood
Tirso de Molina (Fray Gabriel Téllez
Two seventeenth-century views of Corneille's Le Cid
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
Pierre Corneille
Charles de Saint-Evremond
Jean Racine
John Dryden
Thomas Rymer
William Congreve
Series discontinued after volume 2 per publisher