Sources of Dramatic Theory
Sources of Dramatic Theory
Volume 2: Voltaire to Hugo
Michael J. Sidnell
, University of Toronto
August 2010
2. Voltaire to Hugo
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This is the second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on issues that are still relevant to our understanding of drama and theatre. Among the writers represented by their own essays or substantial extracts from longer works are: Voltaire, Diderot, Goldoni, Dr Johnson, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, Hegel, and Coleridge. Many of the texts have been freshly translated for this volume and all have been newly annotated and introduced. Recurrent topics and allusions are traced by a system of cross-references.
- Substantial extracts from major historical theatre and drama texts
- Readable translations
- Cross-referencing and annotation throughout the volume
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December 1994Hardback
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292 pages
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the texts
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sir Richard Steele
- 3. Voltaire
- 4. Pietro Metastasio
- 5. Denis Diderot
- 6. Carlo Goldoni
- 7. Samuel Johnson
- 8. David Hume
- 9. Mlle Dumesnil from memoirs
- 10. Carlo Gozzi
- 11. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- 12. Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- 13. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 14. Friedrich von Schiller
- 15. Decrees and documents from the French Revolution
- 16. Joanna Baillie
- 17. Mme de Staël
- 18. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
- 19. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- 20. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 21. Heinrich von Kleist
- 22. William Hazlitt
- 23. Stendhal
- 24. Victor-Marie Hugo
- Bibliography
- Index.
