DRAMA AND THE THEATRICAL ARTS: DRAMATICAL THEORY

SUB-PAGES

Feminist:

• Feminist Perspectives on Drama and the Theatrical Arts

Post-colonial:

• Post-colonial Perspectives on Drama and the Theatrical Arts

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Society for Theatre Research
• International Federation for Theatre Research
• Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA)

CONFERENCES

2008:

• 4th Annual Conference, Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA), University of Leeds, September 3-5

2007:

• The Art of Performance, Kansas State University, December 1-2
• Annual Conference, H. B. Thom Theatre Centre, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 10-14

2006:

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2003:

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2001:

2000:

Annual:

JOURNALS

• Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Ancient (Classical):
  • Aristotle (c.384 BCE - c.322 BCE)
• Medieval:
• Renaissance:
  • Lodovico Castelvetro (1505 - 1571)

  • Stephen Gosson (1555 - 1624)

• Neo-Classical:

  • Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)

• Romantic:

  • Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805)

  • August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767 - 1845)

• Nineteenth Century:
  • Shaw, George Bernard (1856 - 1950)
• Twentieth Century:

  • Analytic:

  • Anglo-American Formalisms:

    • Modernism

    • Neo-Aristotelianism

    • New Criticism:

  • Continental:

    • Idealism:

    • Marxism:

      • Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

    • Myth Criticism:

      • Vernant, Jean-Pierre (1914 - 2007)

      • Vidal-Naquet, Pierre (1930 - 2006)

      • Detienne, Marcel (1935 - )

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:

    • Psychoanalysis:

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

      • Deleuzean Theory:

      • Dialogism:

      • Foucauldian Theory:

        • Timothy Reiss (1942 - )

        • Stephen Greenblatt (1943 - ) (see also New Historicism)

      • Structuralism:

        • Russian Formalism:

      • Structuralist Marxism:

        • Louis Adrian Montrose ( - )

      • Structuralist Psychoanalysis:

  • Pragmatism:

    • Kenneth Burke (1897 - 1993)

PLAYWRIGHTS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hamilton, James.  The Art of Theatre.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.

  • Semiotic / Semiological Approaches:
    • Alter, Jean.  A Sociosemiotic Theory of Theatre.  Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.
    • Carlson, Marvin.  Theatre Semiotics: Signs of Life.  1990.
    • De Toro, Ferdinand. "Towards a Socio-Semiotics of the Theatre."  Semiotica 72 (1988): .
    • De Toro, Ferdinand. "Towards a Specification of Theatre Discourse."  Versus 54 (1989): .
    • Elam, Keir.  The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama.  London: Routledge, 1980.
    • Pavel, Thomas G.  The Poetics of Plot: the Case of English Renaissance Drama.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1985.
    • Pavis, Patrice.  Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre.  PAJ, 1982.

On-Line:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Mamet, David: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal' Village Voice March 11, 2008

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  •  

• Selected Individual Works:

  •  

On-Line:

• Jahn, Manfred (University of Cologne): A Guide to the Theory of Drama

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Dramatic Structure

  • English Drama

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

Europe:

• UK:
  • University of Nottingham: Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception

WWW GATEWAYS

• University of Emory: Hypertext History of Modern Drama

PHILWEB was last updated: August 26, 2008

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