Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo

The second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Michael J. Sidnell (Edited by)

9780521144711, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

292 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

"...Sidnell has drawn material together in an interesting and useful way." Douglas H. White, Letters In Canada

This is the second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theatre. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire, Diderot, Goldoni, Dr Johnson, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Coleridge. Many of the texts have been freshly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced. Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.

Acknowledgements
Note on the texts
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Sir Richard Steele
3. Voltaire
4. Pietro Metastasio
5. Denis Diderot
6. Carlo Goldoni
7. Samuel Johnson
8. David Hume
9. Mlle Dumesnil from memoirs
10. Carlo Gozzi
11. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
12. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
14. Friedrich von Schiller
15. Decrees and documents from the French Revolution
16. Joanna Baillie
17. Mme de Staël
18. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
20. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21. Heinrich von Kleist
22. William Hazlitt
23. Stendhal
24. Victor-Marie Hugo
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Dance & other performing arts [AS]