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An original and beautifully written book on changing perspectives in the art of theater. Through a study of nine plays-Oedipus Rex, Bérénice, Tristan und Isolde, Hamlet, Ghosts, The Cherry Orchard, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Noah, Murder in the Cathedral-the author shows how all playwrights seek to "hold the mirror up to nature" and how in this respect the art of drama is always the same, varying only with the philosophical and aesthetic concepts of each age. The Idea of a Theater will delight both readers with a special interest in drama and those who read drama as a source of insight into man's nature and man's changing ideas of himself. Originally published in 1949.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Drama --- Criticism --- History and criticism. --- Acting. --- Anagoge. --- Anecdote. --- Aristotelianism. --- Awareness. --- Before the Revolution. --- Brothel. --- Caricature. --- City Of. --- Classicism. --- Cyclorama (theater). --- Dithyramb. --- Dolce Stil Novo. --- Drama. --- Dramatization. --- Dramaturgy. --- Drawing room. --- Episode. --- Escapism. --- Farce. --- Fine art. --- Fortinbras. --- Genre. --- Gilbert Murray. --- Gilbert and Sullivan. --- Good and evil. --- Hamlet's Father. --- Hamlet. --- Harold Clurman. --- Heartbreak House. --- High Spirits (musical). --- Hubris. --- Illustration. --- Imagery. --- Improvisation. --- In Society. --- In This World. --- In the Life. --- Infatuation. --- Irony. --- Jacques Copeau. --- Jean Cocteau. --- Jeux. --- Kilroy was here. --- Laertes (Hamlet). --- Life Itself. --- Literature. --- Louis Jouvet. --- Luigi Pirandello. --- Macduff (Macbeth). --- Major Barbara. --- Melodrama. --- Metaphysical poets. --- Mimesis. --- Modernity. --- Molière. --- Murder in the Cathedral. --- Narrative thread. --- Narrative. --- Of Human Action. --- Omnipotence. --- Oscar Wilde. --- Parody. --- Plautus. --- Play (theatre). --- Playwright. --- Poetic realism. --- Poetry. --- Polonius. --- Primitivism. --- Purgatorio. --- Realism (arts). --- Reductio ad absurdum. --- Restoration comedy. --- Revenge play. --- Rhetorical device. --- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play). --- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. --- Scaramouche. --- Sensibility. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Six Characters in Search of an Author. --- Sophistication. --- Sophocles. --- Sound effect. --- Struggle (TV series). --- Suspension of disbelief. --- Terence. --- The Comic. --- The Infernal Machine (play). --- The Realist. --- The Spirit of the Age. --- The Various. --- The Very Idea. --- Theatre. --- Theatricality. --- Tragedy. --- Valet. --- Ventriloquism. --- William Shakespeare.

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"On the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot's modernist masterpiece, a rich cultural history of The Waste Land's creation, explosive impact, and enduring influence. When T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922, it put its 34-year-old author on a path to worldwide fame and the Nobel Prize. "But," as Jed Rasula writes, "The Waste Land is not only a poem: it names an event, like a tornado or an earthquake. Its publication was a watershed, marking a before and after. It was a poem that unequivocally declared that the ancient art of poetry had become modern." In What the Thunder Said, Rasula tells the story of how The Waste Land changed poetry forever and how this cultural bombshell served as a harbinger of modernist revolution in all the arts, from abstraction in visual art to atonality in music. From its famous opening, "April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land," to its closing Sanskrit mantra, "Shantih shantih shantih," The Waste Land combined singular imagery, experimental technique, and dense allusions, boldly fulfilling Ezra Pound's injunction to "make it new." What the Thunder Said traces the origins, reception, and enduring influence of the poem, from its roots in Wagnerism and French Symbolism to the way its strangely beguiling music continues to inspire readers. Along the way, we learn about Eliot's storied circle, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and Bertrand Russell, and about poets like Mina Loy and Marianne Moore, whose innovations have proven as consequential as those of the "men of 1914."Filled with fresh insights and unfamiliar anecdotes, What the Thunder Said recovers the explosive force of the twentieth century's most influential poem"--

Eliot, T. S. --- Waste land (Eliot, T.S.) --- A Season in Hell. --- Aldous Huxley. --- Aphorism. --- Arnaut Daniel. --- Arthur Cravan. --- Arthur Rimbaud. --- Arthur Symons. --- Assonance. --- Blaise Cendrars. --- Caresse Crosby. --- Charles Baudelaire. --- Charles Demuth. --- Charles Olson. --- Charles Reznikoff. --- Conrad Aiken. --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Dada. --- Darius Milhaud. --- De Profundis (letter). --- Demimonde. --- E. M. Forster. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Eustace Mullins. --- Existentialism. --- Ezra Pound. --- F. L. Lucas. --- F. S. Flint. --- Floyd Dell. --- Ford Madox Ford. --- Fredric Wertham. --- Gelett Burgess. --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. --- George Antheil. --- Gerontion. --- Gilbert Murray. --- Guillaume Apollinaire. --- Hart Crane. --- Hector Berlioz. --- Henri Bergson. --- Herbert Spencer. --- Hugh Ross Williamson. --- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. --- Imagism. --- Irving Babbitt. --- James Abbott McNeill Whistler. --- James Huneker. --- Jeremiad. --- John Crowe Ransom. --- John Masefield. --- John Middleton Murry. --- John Peale Bishop. --- Joseph Moncure March. --- Karl Shapiro. --- Kurt Schwitters. --- Kurt Weill. --- Lothario. --- Louis MacNeice. --- Louis Untermeyer. --- Ludwig Tieck. --- Lytton Strachey. --- Malcolm Cowley. --- Manifesto of Futurism. --- Marcel Broodthaers. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mario Praz. --- Mythopoeia. --- New Criticism. --- Nian Rebellion. --- Pierre Leroux. --- Poetry. --- Prometheus. --- Randall Jarrell. --- Revolution. --- Revue. --- Richard Aldington. --- Ripostes. --- Robert Bridges. --- Robert Frost. --- Rosicrucianism. --- Rupert Brooke. --- Sherwood Anderson. --- Symbolist Manifesto. --- T. E. Hulme. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Egoist (periodical). --- The Machiavellian Moment. --- Thomas Carlyle. --- Thus Spoke Zarathustra. --- Tristan Tzara. --- V. --- Venusberg (mythology). --- Victor Plarr. --- Vorticism. --- W. B. Yeats. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Walter Pater. --- William Empson. --- Wyndham Lewis.