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《戏剧本质论》选自美国利特尔·布朗出版公司1985年出版的《戏剧种种》(第四版)一书。《戏剧种种》是被美国大学和研究生院戏剧与戏剧理论专业广为采用的教科书之一。《戏剧本质论》是其中收录的一篇对西方两千多年来戏剧与戏剧理论进行全方位评述的论文。本文上及古希腊悲、喜剧,下及当代荒诞派戏剧,经过细致的分析,结合粗线条的概述和客观的观照,为我们展现了西方戏剧及其理论流派的整个嬗变过程。由于原文较长,将近两万字,译者在编译过程中删去了文中一些与主题无密切关系的引文和例证.
“The Essence of Drama” was selected from the “The Variety of Theatrical Works” (Fourth Edition), published by the U.S.Little Brown Publishing Company in 1985. “Variety of Drama” is one of the textbooks widely used by drama and drama theory major at American universities and graduate schools. “The Essence of Drama” is one of the essays that contains a comprehensive review of western drama and drama theory for more than two thousand years. This article and the ancient Greek tragedies, comedies, contemporary and contemporary Absurd theater, through careful analysis, combined with rough outline and objective observation, show us the entire process of the evolution of Western drama and its theoretical schools. Due to the long text, nearly 20,000 words, the translator in the compilation process deleted some of the text is not closely related to the subject quotation and examples.