Tragedy And The Theory Of Drama
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Author | : Elder Olson |
Publisher | : Detroit : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This book grew out of lectures on tragedy by Elder Olson delivered at Wayne State University in the spring of 1958. It is an attempt to cover the dramatic principles themselves instead of only stage-craft and play writing. The author as attempted to see tragedy, and of the whole of drama, from a point of view of the working dramatist, encapsulating the principles.
Author | : Hans-Thies Lehmann |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2016-05-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317276280 |
This comprehensive, authoritative account of tragedy is the culmination of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking contributions to theatre and performance scholarship. It is a major milestone in our understanding of this core foundation of the dramatic arts. From the philosophical roots and theories of tragedy, through its inextricable relationship with drama, to its impact upon post-dramatic forms, this is the definitive work in its field. Lehmann plots a course through the history of dramatic thought, taking in Aristotle, Plato, Seneca, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Shakespeare, Schiller, Holderlin, Wagner, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Brecht, Kantor, Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane.
Author | : Edwin Wong |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1525537555 |
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Comedy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elder Olson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780814311493 |
Examines the principles of tragedy and drama in gereral and the literary and technical problems faced by dramatists
Author | : Manfred Pfister |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521423830 |
Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
Author | : Richard H. Palmer |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 031328203X |
Comprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present. Critically surveying the similarities and differences among major theories, Palmer analyzes features associated with tragedy, such as the tragic hero, katharsis, and self-recognition; develops a working definition of tragedy; and applies these ideas to a sampling of plays that present special interpretive problems. He incorporates and explores the ideas of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Kierkegaard, and Freud, as well as contemporary theorists, who also appear with biographical blurbs in an appendix to the volume along with an extensive bibliography. By examining both tragedy and the theoretical responses to tragedy, this study demonstrates that the definition of tragedy depends on the meaning perceived by an audience rather than on a structured stimulus independent of response; yet, it does not abandon the possibility of isolating fixed defining characteristics. The audience response approach provides a framework for analyzing earlier theories. Systematically developed, the study is equally valuable as a text in drama and criticism or as a convenient reference tool to drama theory and theorists.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781544217574 |
In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."
Author | : Allardyce Nicoll |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard H. Palmer |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1992-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Comprehending tragedy has been a major philosophical and critical preoccupation in Western thought. Whether concerned with the generic problem of definition or with tragedy in the context of specific writers or periods, books with multiple and often conflicting perspectives abound. In an effort to bring order to the explanations over two millennia, Tragedy and Tragic Theory lucidly analyzes the principal ideas about tragedy from Plato to the present. Critically surveying the similarities and differences among major theories, Palmer analyzes features associated with tragedy, such as the tragic hero, katharsis, and self-recognition; develops a working definition of tragedy; and applies these ideas to a sampling of plays that present special interpretive problems. He incorporates and explores the ideas of such eminent thinkers as Aristotle, Hegel, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Kierkegaard, and Freud, as well as contemporary theorists, who also appear with biographical blurbs in an appendix to the volume along with an extensive bibliography. By examining both tragedy and the theoretical responses to tragedy, this study demonstrates that the definition of tragedy depends on the meaning perceived by an audience rather than on a structured stimulus independent of response; yet, it does not abandon the possibility of isolating fixed defining characteristics. The audience response approach provides a framework for analyzing earlier theories. Systematically developed, the study is equally valuable as a text in drama and criticism or as a convenient reference tool to drama theory and theorists.