Theater of the avant-garde, 1890-1950 : a critical anthology / edited by Robert Knopf.

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Introduction / Robert Knopf and Julia Listengarten -- 1. Franco-Russian symbolism. Interior (1891) / Maurice Maeterlinck -- "The Modern Drama" (1904) / Maurice Maeterlinck -- The Wayfarer (1910) / Valery Briusov -- "Against Naturalism in the Theater" (1902) / Valery Briusov -- 2. Pataphysical theater. King Ubu (1896) / Alfred Jarry -- "Theater Questions" (1897) / Alfred Jarry -- 3. Intimate theater/Chamber drama. The Ghost Sonata (1907) / August Strindberg -- from Zones of the Spirit (1907) / August Strindberg -- 4. Correspondences. The Yellow Sound (1909) / Wassliy Kandinsky -- "On Stage Composition" (1912) / Wassily Kandinsky -- 5. Italian futurism. Genius and Culture (1915) / Umberto Boccioni -- Detonation (1915) / Francesco Cangiullo -- Feet (1915) / Filippo Marinetti -- "The Futurist Synthetic Theater, 1915: (1915) / Filippo Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli, and Bruno Corra -- 6. German expressionism. The Beggar (1912) / Reinhard Sorge -- "Two Superdramas: (1918) / Yvan Goll -- 7. Dada. The Gas Heart (1920) / Tristan Tzara -- Dada Manifesto, 1918 (1918) / Tristan Tzara -- 8. The theater of pure form. The Cuttlefish (1922) / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- "On a New Type of Play: (1920) / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- 9. French surrealism. The Mysteries of Love (1927) / Roger Vitrac -- First Surrealist Manifesto (1924) / Andre Breton -- 10. Theater of cruelty. The Spurt of Blood (1925) / Antonin Artaud -- "No More Masterpieces" (1938) / Antonin Artaud -- 11. Russian oberiu. Christmas at the Ivanovs' (1938) / Aleksandr Vvedensky -- "The Oberiu Manifesto" (1928) / Daniil Kharms, Aleksandr Vvedensky, and others -- 12. American dada and surrealism. Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) / Gertrude Stein -- "Plays" (1934) / Gertrude Stein -- 13. The theater of the absurd. The Invasion (1949) / Arthur Adamov -- "The Theater of the Absurd" (1961) / Martin Esslin.