Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology by Professor Bert Cardullo, Mr. Robert Knopf

Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology



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Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology Professor Bert Cardullo, Mr. Robert Knopf
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Page: 546
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ISBN: 0300085257, 9780300133042
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Cardullo (theater and drama, Univ. of Michigan) and Knopf (theater, Connecticut Coll.) have compiled an important anthology of the now-classic drama widely known as avant-garde. The many styles and movements represented here were mined, in the words of Cardullo, to "bring genuine dramatic Expressionism into central focus." Inexplicably, the writings of major avant-garde figures are long out of print or remain untranslated. In addition to the complete text of plays by Antonin Artaud, Gertrude Stein, August Strindberg, and Alfred Jarry, the editors have included such lesser-known but equally influential writers as Roger Virac, Filippo Marinetti, and Aleksandr Vvedensky. While making a case for new inclusions, Cardullo accepts the standard, and most useful, designations for what constitutes a Dada piece vs. an Absurd or Futurist one and uses the terms avant-garde and modernist synonymously. However, a more thorough exploration of the "classic" avant-garde's impact on today's theater would have been a welcome addition to the introductory essay. Indeed, Cardullo makes no effort to mask his disdain for most "performance art," complaining that "the avant-garde can today do little more than impotently express disenchantment with its own ideals." Still, the comprehensive and varied nature of these works and the accompanying illuminating essays will make this a standard text for any serious study of 20th-century drama. Douglas McClemont, New York
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Editors Cardullo and Knopf pack this volume with avant-garde writings and plays, from Belgian Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck's 1891 play Interior and 1904 essay "The Modern Drama" to Arthur Adamov's 1949 absurdist play The Invasion and an excerpt from Martin Esslin's groundbreaking 1961 book, The Theater of the Absurd. Between those selections appear August Strindberg's Ghost Sonata, Alfred Jarry's King Ubu, Wassily Kandinsky's The Yellow Sound, Tristan Tzara's The Gass Heart, and many more. Every major experimental movement--symbolism, Italian futurism, German expressionism, dada, surrealism, and theater of the absurd--is represented, and so are some minor ones, such as Jarry's crackpot Pataphysical Theater, which managed to shake things up, if not to endure. Some of the contents, like the Strindberg and Jarry plays, are otherwise widely available, but there is enough hard-to-find stuff here, such as the futurists' daringly short plays and Polish innovator Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's The Cuttlefish, to make the book worthwhile to any theater collection. Jack Helbig
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