The Life of the Drama
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York |
| Copyright | 1964 |
| Pages / Font | 371 pages |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 64-14930 |
| Chapters | Part One: Aspects of a Play 1) Plot The Raw Material of Plot The Imitation of Life Astonishment and Suspense The Imitation of the Action The Prejudice against Plot The Provocation to the Prejudice Shakespeare A Plot is Not a Play 2) Character The Raw Material of Character From Fact to Fiction In Praise of Types Type and Archetype Typology and Mythology Modern Psychological Drama Beyond Types and Individuals The Stuff of Dreams 3) Dialogue "Talking!" The Playwright as Talker Eloquence in Dialogue Naturalism Rhetorical Prose Rhetorical Verse Poetry Anti-Poetry Anti-Plays 4) Thought Thought and Feeling The Pathos of Thought Bad Ideas Propaganda A Play is an Intellectual Thing The Spanish Drama The German Drama Shaw Pirandello Brecht The Dignity of Significence 5) Enactment Literature vs. Theatre To Impersonate, To Watch and to be Watched Substitutiions Identifications Empathy and Alienation The Adult and the Infantile Late Adolescence What the Actor Gives the Playwright Great Acting in Melodrama The Theatrical Occasion Play, Play-Acting, Acting Psychodrama Il Giuoco delle Parti Part Two: Different Kinds of Plays 6) Melodrama The Bad Name of Melodrama In Praise of Self-Pity Pity and Fear Exaggeration Language Zola and After The Quintessence 7) Farce Violence Scoffing at Marriage Comic Catharsis Jokes and the Theatre Sweet and Bitter Springs The Dialectic of Farce Mischief as Fate In the Image of the Ape The Quintessence of Theatre "The Breath of Imaginary Freedom" 8) Tragedy The Higher Forms Character in Comedy and Tragedy Death in Everyday Life "La Oscura Raiz del Grito" Awe Compassion Shakespeare to Kleist Anger The Dialectic of Tragedy 9) Comedy "I Was Only Joking!" "Let's Not Go Into That!" Tragedy and Comedy: Some Generalizations As You Like It 10) Tragi-Comedy Tragedy: Averted and Transcended Revenge, Justice, Forgiveness Despair, Hope References Acknowledgements Index |
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