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1 online resource (ix, 523 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
This critical anthology of avant-garde drama offers comprehensive coverage of that distinctively twentieth-century tradition. It includes the full texts of sixteen important plays, each preceded by a historical-critical introduction and followed by an essay, often written by the playwright, that elaborates on the dramatic and aesthetic issues raised by the play. Cardullo and Knopf, in making plays and documents of the avant-garde available in one collection for the first time, underscore the place and importance of the movement. In a provocative general introduction to the book, Bert Cardullo traces the history of the avant-garde tradition and argues for a revisionist history of modern drama that would acknowledge the innovative contributions of the avant-garde. The anthology, which presents examples of French and Russian Symbolism, Italian Futurism, German Expressionism, and Dada-Surrealism, as well as work by such seminal figures as Jarry, Strindberg, Artaud, and Kandinsky, illuminates the astonishing daring of these writers from many Western countries and diverse theatrical movements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-513) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century.
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Experimental drama -- History and criticism
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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DRAMA.
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DRAMA -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Drama
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Experimental drama
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Avant-garde.
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Toneel.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cardullo, Bert, editor.
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Knopf, Robert, 1961- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780300133042 |
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0300133049 |
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9780300210545 |
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030021054X |
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