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Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre
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Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. Thi, Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre has a rating of 2 stars
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre
  • Written by author Patrick McGuinness
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000
  • Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. Thi
  • Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This stu
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Introduction1
1Symbolist Beginnings13
Early Writings: 1886-9014
A Decadent Poet: Serres chaudes (1889)26
Language and Silence: Towards a Theatre of the Unspoken34
Possible Theatres: Le Cahier Bleu and Revenge Tragedy40
2La Princesse Maleine and Symbolist Theatre48
A Precursor: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam51
The Search for a Symbolist Theatre57
Towards a Consensus: Theatre and the Public67
'Le seul drame a faire ...': Symbolism and 'Universal' Theatre72
La Princesse Maleine77
3Maeterlinck, Mallarme, and Symbolist Dramatic Theory90
The Trouble with Theatre95
Theatre and Theatricality98
Actors, Androids, and Marionettes105
Theatre as Event118
4Theatre and the Invisible Principle: Pelleas Et Melisande125
Discontinuous Melodrama127
Character (In)Action134
Puppet Theatre and Theatre of Shadows151
Symbolism and Interpretation154
A Closed Universe159
Mallarme Reading Pelleas162
5Using the Stage169
Form in Suspense171
Spatial Relations and the Perception of Space in Les Aveugles175
Space Besieged187
Staging the Invisible198
Staging Theatre: Interieur202
A Theatre of Waiting213
6The Fecund Interval: 'Le Tragique Quotidien'217
Theatre, Anti-theatre, and Non-theatre220
The Everyday Transfigured225
'L'Inconnu'229
Static Theatre235
'Second degree dialogue' and the 'troisieme personnage'240
Language and Silence in the Theatre248
Conclusion254
Select Bibliography259
Index267


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