THEATRE/THEORY/THEATRE Foreword Introduction: The Politics of Theatre Theory 11(32) Daniel Gerould Aristotle: The Poetics (4th c. B.C.) 43(25) Ingram Bywater Horace: The Art of Poetry (1st c. B.C.) 68(16) John Conington Bharata: Natyasastra (1st c. A.D.?) 84(12) Adya Rangacharya Zeami: On the Art of the No Drama (15th c.) 96(12) J. Thomas Rimer Yamazaki Masakazu Lodovico Castelvetro: The Poetics of Aristotle (1570) 108(9) Allan H. Gilbert Philip Sidney: The Defense of Poesy (1583), selections 117(11) Giambattista Guarini: The Compendium of Tragicomic Poetry (1599) 128(7) Allan H. Gilbert Felix Lope de Vega: The New Art of Writing Plays (1609) 135(11) Marvin Carlson Francois Hedelin, abbe d'Aubignac: The Whole Art of the Stage (1657) anonymous translation (1684), selections 146(7) Pierre Corneille: Of the Three Unities of Action, Time, and Place (1660) 153(15) Donald Schier John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668), selections 168(11) Li Yu: Casual Expressions of Idle Feelings (1671) 179(10) Faye C. Fei William H. Sun Denis Diderot: Conversations on The Natural Son (1757) 189(13) Derek Coltman The Paradox of Acting (1773-8) 198(4) Walter Herries Pollock Jean-Jacques Rousseau: An Epistle to Mr. d'Alembert (1758) anonymous translation (1767), selections 202(17) Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare (1765), selections 219(17) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Hamburg Dramaturgy (1767-9) 236(12) Helen Zimmern Friedrich Schiller: The Stage as a Moral Institution (1784) anonymous translation, complete 248(14) On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy (1803) 255(7) Charles E. Passage Mme de Stael: Of The Dramatic Art (1810) anonymous translation (1871), selections 262(6) August Wilhelm Schlegel: Lectures on Dramatic Art (1809-11) 268(8) John Black Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Shakespeare Once Again (1815) 276(12) Ellen von Nardroff Ernest H. von Nardroffe Arthur Schopenbauer: The World as Will and Idea (1819/1844) 288(10) R. B. Haldane J. Kemp Victor Hugo: Preface to Cromwell (1827) 298(16) Barry V. Daniels Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The Philosophy of Fine Art (1835) 314(13) F. P. B. Osmaston Adam Mickiewicz: Slavic Drama (1843) 327(9) Daniel Gerould Friedrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 336(15) Clifton P. Fadiman Emile Zola: Preface to Therese Raquin (1873) 351(17) Kathleen Boutall Naturalism in the Theatre (1881) 358(10) Jane House August Strindberg: Preface to Miss Julie (1888) 368(13) Harry G. Carlson Maurice Maeterlinck: The Tragical in Daily Life (1896) 381(9) Alfred Sutro Gordon Craig: The Actor and the Ubermarionette (1907), selections 390(9) William Butler Yeats: The Tragic Theatre (1910), complete 399(7) Vsevolod Meyerhold: The Fairground Booth (1912) 406(13) Edward Braun Filippo Marinetti: The Variety Theatre (1913) 419(8) R. W. Flint Bernard Shaw: Tolstoy: Tragedian or Comedian? (1921), selections 427(6) Antonin Artaud: The Theater and Its Double (1938) 433(11) Mary Caroline Richards Bertolt Brecht: The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre (1930) Alienation Effects in Chinese Acting (1935) 444(18) John Willett Augusto Boal: Theater of the Oppressed (1974) 462(12) Charles A. Maria-Odilia Leal McBride Wole Soyinka: Drama and the African World-view (1976), selections 474(9) Vaclav Havel: Writing for the Stage (1986) 483(8) Paul Wilson Bibliography 491(1) Acknowledgments 492