Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521144711)

This is the second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory. This volume includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theater from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 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.

Author: Michael J. Sidnell
ISBN-10: 052114471X
ISBN-13: 9780521144711
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/24/2010
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d