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Part I: Introduction <br/>The Work of Art of the Future, Richard Wagner<br/>The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Georges Polti<br/>The Law of the Drama, Ferdinand Brunetiere<br/>The Comic in Situations, Henri Bergson<br/>Melodrama, Eric Bentley<br/>For a Theatre of Situations, Jean-Paul Sartre<br/>Theatre Problems, Friedrich Durrenmatt<br/>Theatre Without a Conscience, Howard Barker<br/>Are There Universals of Performance in Myth, Ritual, and Drama?, Victor Turner<br/><br/>Part II: Varieties of Realism <br/>The Relationship of Dramatic Art to its Age and Allied Matters, Friedrich Hebbel<br/>Naturalism, Emile Zola<br/>Author's Preface to `Miss Julie', August Strindberg<br/>Against the Well-Made Play, George Bernard Shaw<br/>`Death of a Salesman': A Modern Tragedy?, Arthur Miller<br/><br/>Part III: Anti-Naturalism <br/>The Tragical in Daily Life, Maurice Maeterlinck<br/>The Theatre, William Butler Yeats<br/>Certain Nobel Plays of Japan, William Butler Yeats<br/>On the Theatre: The Fairground Booth, Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold<br/>The Art of the Theatre: The First Dialogue, Edward Gordon Craig<br/>Organic Unity, Adolphe Appia<br/>Memoranda on Masks, Eugene O'Neill<br/>A Dramatist's Notebook, Eugene O'Neill<br/>Author's Note to `A Dream Play', August Strindberg<br/>On the Futility of the `Theatrical' in the Theatre, Alfred Jarry<br/>Preface and Prologue to `The Breasts of Tiresias', Guillaume Apollinaire<br/>Preface to Die Unsterblichen (`The Immortals'), Yvan Goll<br/>Preface to `Methusalem, The Eternal Bourgeois', Yvan Goll<br/>The Futurist Synthetic Theatre, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, with Emilio Settimelli and Bruno Corra<br/>On a New Type of Play, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz<br/>The Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto, Antonin Artaud<br/>An End to Masterpieces, Antonin Artaud<br/>The Theatre's New Testament, Jerry Grotowski<br/>The Holy Theatre: Happenings, Peter Brook<br/>The London Controversy: Tynan v. Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco<br/><br/>Part IV: Political Theatre <br/>Letter to a Creative Collaborator, Ernst Toller<br/>The Programme of the Proletarian Theatre, Erwin Piscator<br/>The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre, Bertolt Brecht<br/>A Short Organum for the Theatre, Bertolt Brecht<br/>The Material and the Models, Peter Weiss<br/>Poetics of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal<br/>Political Dynamics: The Feminisms, Michelene Wandor<br/><br/>Part V: Semiotics <br/>Dynamics of the Sign in the Theatre, Jindrich Honzl<br/>Semiotics of Theatrical Performance, Umberto Eco<br/>Psychic Polyphony, Marvin Carlson<br/>The Signs of Stage and Screen, Martin Esslin<br/>Avant-Garde Theatre and Semiology: A Few Practices and the Theory Behind Them, Patrice Pavis |
