The Routledge Drama Anthology : Modernism to Contemporary Performance (Paperback, 2 ed)

List of illustrations  Acknowledgements  Introduction ? Maggie B. Gale  Part 1: Naturalism and Symbolism: Early Modernist Practice  Introduction ? Dan Rebellato  Play and Performance Texts  1. Therese Raquin (Emile Zola)  2. Miss Julie (August Strindberg)  3. Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov)  4. When We Dead Awaken (Henrik Ibsen)  5. Interior (Maurice Maeterlinck)  Critical Texts  6. Naturalism in the Theatre (Emile Zola)  7. Preface to Miss Julie (August Strindberg)  8. A New Art of the Stage (Arthur Symons)  9. The Modern Drama (Maurice Maeterlinck)  10. Tragedy in Everyday Life (Maurice Maeterlinck)  11. On the Complete Pointlessness of Accurate Staging (Pierre Quillard)  Part 2: The Historical Avant-Garde: Performance and Innovation  Introduction ? Maggie B. Gale  Play and Performance Texts  1. King Ubu (Alfred Jarry)  2. The Breasts of Tiresias (Guillaume Apollinaire)  3. The Spurt of Blood (Antonin Artaud)  4. Murderer the Women’s Hope (Oskar Kokoschka)  5. Genius and Culture and Bachelor Apartment (Umberto Boccioni)  6. Feet (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti)  7. Genius in a Jiffy or a Dadalogy (Raoul Hausmann)  8. R.U.R. (Karel ?apek)  9. Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello)  10. Dr Faustus Lights the Lights (Gertrude Stein)  Critical Texts  11. The Meaning of the Music Hall (Filippo Tommaso Marinetti)  12. Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto (Antonin Artaud)  13. The First Surrealist Manifesto and The Second Surrealist Manifesto (Andre Breton)  13. Futurist Scenography (Enrico Prampolini)  15. Theater, Circus, Variety (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) Part 3: Political Theatres  Introduction ? John F. Deeney and Maggie B. Gale  Play and Performance Texts  1. How the Vote Was Won (Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John)  2. Hoppla, We’re Alive! (Ernst Toller)  3. The Exception and the Rule (Bertolt Brecht)  4. Meerut and How to Produce Meerut (The Worker’s Theatre Movement)  5. Love on the Dole (Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood)  6. Blues for Mister Charlie (James Baldwin)  Critical Texts  7. Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment (Susan Carlson)  8. Rehabilitating Realism (Sheila Stowell)  9. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin)  10. The Street Scene (Bertolt Brecht)  11. Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction (Bertolt Brecht)  12. On Political Theatre (Michael Kirby)  13. The Politics Beyond Politics (Howard Barker)  Part 4: Late Modernism  Introduction ? Carl Lavery  Play and Performance Texts  1. The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco)  2. Endgame (Samuel Beckett)  3. The Balcony (Jean Genet)  4. The Dumb Waiter (Harold Pinter)  Critical Texts  5. ‘The Absurdity of the Absurd’ (Martin Esslin)  6 ‘The London Controversy’ (Eugene Ionesco)  7. ‘Trying to Understand Endgame’ (Theodore Adorno)  8. ‘The Theatre of Jean Genet: A Sociological Study’ (Lucien Goldman)  Part 5: Contemporary Theatre and Performance  Introduction - John F. Deeney & Maggie B. Gale  Play and Performance Texts  1. Quartet (Heiner Muller)  2. Confess to Everything/Speak Bitterness (Tim Etchells/Forced Entertainment )  3. Belle Reprieve (Split Britches)  4. The Story of M (SuAndi)  5. Supernintendo Ranchero (Guillermo Gomez Pena)  6. Far Away (Caryl Churchill)  7. Product (Mark Ravenhill)  Critical Texts  8. ‘The Death of the Author’ (Roland Barthes)  9. ‘Dramaturgy’ and ‘Montage’ (Eugenio Barba)  10. ‘The Precession of the Simulacra’ (Jean Baudrillard)  11. ‘The Emancipated Spectator ‘(Jacques Ranciere)  12. ‘Epilogue’ (Hans Thies Lehmann)  13. ‘Away from the Surveillance Cameras of the Art World: Strategies for Collaboration and Community Activism’ (Guillermo Gomez Pena)  14. Me, My iBook and Writing in America (Mark Ravenhill)