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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic of early modern Europe. This was manifested in the convention that form was ahistorical and it simply required the appropriate subject matter to do justice to the form. But in the late nineteenth century the form of drama began to change, giving rise to the new types of drama characteristic of the twentieth century. Szondi offers a highly original interpretation of this transformation, linking it with the emergence of an epic form which emphasizes the isolation of the individual.
This concise but wide-ranging book discusses the work of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Sartre, Brecht and Wilder, among others. It will be essential reading for students of drama, modern languages and literature, and contemporary literary theory.
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CONTENTS
Cover
Front Matter
Foreword: On the Difference between a Mimetic and a Semiotic Theory of the Modern Drama
Notes
Translator’s Preface
Part One
Introduction: Historical Aesthetics and Genre-Based Poetics
Notes
I. The Drama
Notes
II. The Drama in Crisis
1. Ibsen
2. Chekhov
3. Strindberg
4. Maeterlinck
5. Hauptmann
Notes
Part Two
Transition: A Theory of Stylistic Change
Notes
III. Rescue Attempts
6. Naturalism
7. The Conversation Play
8. The One-Act Play
9. Constraint and Existentialism
Notes
IV. Tentative Solutions
10. I Dramaturgy: Expressionism
11. The Political Revue: Piscator
12. Epic Theater: Brecht
13. Montage: Bruckner
14. Enacting the Impossibility of the Drama: Pirandello
15. Monologue Intérieur: O’Neill
16. The Epic I as Stage Manager: Wilder
17. The Play of Time: Wilder
18. Memory: Miller
Notes
In Lieu of an Afterword
For the 1963 Edition
Textual Variants
Editor’s Notes and Commentary
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
Table of Contents
Begin Reading
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Theory of the Modern Drama
A Critical Edition
Peter Szondi
Edited and Translated by Michael Hays
Foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse
Polity Press, Cambridge
Originally published in German as Theorie des modernen Dramas © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1956. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin
English translation and Foreword © 1987 by the University of Minnesota
An earlier version of Part One, edited and translated by Michael Hays, appeared in Boundary 2 11, no. 3 (Spring 1983)
First published in the United Kingdom, 1987, by Polity Press, Cambridge, in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford
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