Daniel Gerould
Biographic Data
| ID | 459046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Gerould |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gerould |
| SIGNATURE | GEROULD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Encounters
Encounters Daniel Gerould I All translation starts with an encounter of discovery; if successful, that meeting leads to further encounters. Sometimes this first encounter between future translator and author takes place through direct contact with a new play, seen in the theatre or read in a manuscript or book; sometimes it is a meeting with the playwright, at home or abroad. The ways these encounters can come about—by choice, by chance, by fatal…
Your Murderer
Theatre/Theory/Theatre: The Major Critical Texts from Aristotle and Zeami to Soyinka and Havel
(Applause Books). Available for the First Time in Paperback! From Aristotle's Poetics to Vaclav Havel, the debate about the nature and function of theatre has been marked by controversy. Daniel Gerould's landmark work, Theatre/Theory/Theatre, collects history's most influential Eastern and Western dramatic theorists poets, playwrights, directors and philosophers whose ideas about theatre continue to shape its future. In complete texts and choice …
Country House
Marxism, Melodrama, and Theatre Historiography
The Witkiewicz Reader
Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre & Society, 1820-1870
A Life of Solitude. Stanislawa Przybyszewska: A Biographical Study with Selected Letters
A Life of Solitude is a biography of Polish playwright Stanislawa Przybyszewska (1901-35). One of the finest plays about the French Revolution, The Danton Case, was written by this unknown Polish woman living in obscurity in the free city of Danzig. The illegitimate daughter of writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, she became a writer against long odds and at the cost of her health, her sanity, and eventually her life. A Life of Solitude shows how she …
The Danton Case & Thermidor: Two Plays
Historical Simulation and Popular Entertainment: The "Potemkin" Mutiny from Reconstructed Newsreel to Black Sea Stunt Men
Crowds being only capable of thinking in images are only to be impressed by images. It is only images that terrify or attract them and become motives of action. For this reason theatrical representations, in which the image is shown in its most clearly visible shape, always have an enormous influence on crowds. [. . .] The unreal has almost as much influence on them as the real. They have an evident tendency not to distinguish between the two
Alexander Bogdanov, Founder of Soviet Science Fiction
Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers: An International Collection of Symbolist Drama
From Adam Mickiewicz's "Lectures on Slavic Literature" Given at the College de France
Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers: An International Collection of Symbolist Drama
Soviet Plays in Translation: An Annotated Bibliography
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam and Science Fiction
"Oscar Metenier and "Comedie Rosse: From the Theatre Libre to the Grand Guignol
Les Voies de la Création Théatrale XI: T. Kantor
The Crystal Spider
Witkacy: An Album of Photos a Bundle of Letters
Madame Rachilde: "Man" of Letters
On Soviet Science Fiction
Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents
Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer
The brilliant dramatist-novelist-portraitist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz made up the name Witkacy to distinguish himself from his well-known father, a realist painter in Russian Poland. Largely the product of his father's determined educational theories, Witkacy struggled to form his own individuality and follow his own instincts. As a result he was to become a major figure in the European avant-garde of the inter-war period, though recognition c…
Interview: Directing in Poland. A Confrontation with History: Zygmunt Hubner
Montage of Attractions: For Enough Stupidity in Every Wiseman
Just a few words. The theatrical program of the Proletkult does not involve the “utilization of the values of the past” or the “invention of new forms of theatre” but the abolition of the very institution of the theatre as such, replacing it with a showplace for achievements in the theatre or with an instrument for raising the standard of training of the masses in their day-to-day life. The real task of the scientific section of the Proletkult in…
Witkacy: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer
The brilliant dramatist-novelist-portraitist Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz made up the name Witkacy to distinguish himself from his well-known father, a realist painter in Russian Poland. Largely the product of his father's determined educational theories, Witkacy struggled to form his own individuality and follow his own instincts. As a result he was to become a major figure in the European avant-garde of the inter-war period, though recognition c…
From Adam Mickiewicz's "Lectures on Slavic Literature" Given at the College de France
BIM-BOM and the Afanasjew Family Circus
A number of amateur student theatres that expressed a longing for something other than drabness and conformity in art and life arose quite spontaneously in Warsaw, Cracow, and other principal Polish cities toward the end of the Stalinist period in Poland (1950-1955). They developed chiefly as a reaction against the boredom and the constraint of the official professional theatre. Of all these theatres, the group that developed in Gdansk, Bim-Bom a…
Eisenstein's Wiseman
Throughout the first decade of its existence, Soviet theatre sought inspiration and new directions in the popular arts. In the period after the Revolution, the most innovative Russian directors and writers, by turning to the clowning and novelty acts of circus and music hall attempted a complete break with the traditions of bourgeois drama—its plotting, psychology, and domestic themes—in order to create a vital new political and propagandistic th…
The Meyerhold Centennial
Where is your grave— Or maybe even just a mound- Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold? Where can we put a monument? There is no grave. You cannot be frozen into a statue, Like some docile teacher's pet. You blaze From the pedestals of the world stage, Vsevolod Emilyevich Meyerhold. The 100th anniversary of Vsevolod Meyerhold's birth on February 9, 1874, was celebrated this year in the Soviet Union. The centennial celebrations honoring the great Russian …
Montage of Attractions: For Enough Stupidity in Every Wiseman
Just a few words. The theatrical program of the Proletkult does not involve the “utilization of the values of the past” or the “invention of new forms of theatre” but the abolition of the very institution of the theatre as such, replacing it with a showplace for achievements in the theatre or with an instrument for raising the standard of training of the masses in their day-to-day life. The real task of the scientific section of the Proletkult in…
Tropical Madness
Tadeusz Rozewicz: Playwriting as Collage
Avant-Garde Drama: A Casebook, 1918-1939
Vasilii Aksyonov: Contemporary Russian Playwright
Play: Your Murderer
Twentieth-Century Polish Avant-Garde Drama
Sologub and the Theatre
Fydor Sologub (pronounced Sulagoup, with the stress on the last syllable) is best known as a poet and novelist, famous for his elegant; musical verse and for his grotesque fictional masterpiece, The Petty Demon. Born in 1863 and a member of the first generation of Russian symbolists, Sologub—a man of proletarian origins whose real name was Teternikov—was almost forty-five when he wrote his first play and had already been active in the literary wo…
The Theatre of One Will
On the vessel there is a seal, on the seal there is a name; what is hidden within the vessel is known by the one who places the seal and by the initiated. E. K. Vizener. The Silence of the First Bride. A Novel. You philosophize like a poet. Dostoevsky. Letters
Russian Formalist Theories of Melodrama
Polish Romantic Drama: Plays in English Translation
"The Jaws of Night": (Fragment of a Planned Mystery)
Andrei Bely: Russian Symbolist
Valerii Briusov: Russian Symbolist
The Wayfarer: A Psychodrama in One Act
Mimetic
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Pierrot Assassin of His Wife
Head and hands, of plaster white, protrude from a white cloak, lownecked and pleated, with huge buttons. The head, eyes, and lips are clearly marked in black and red: in this fashion the look in the right eye—the other eye is closed—and the laugh puckering a single corner of the mouth acquire animation. Forehead enlarged by a white headband which is gripped by a second band—the traditional one—in black velvet. The hands, also of plaster, and the …
Paul Margueritte and Pierrot Assassin of His Wife
The pantomime, Pierrot Assassin of His Wife —one of the most extraordinary solo performances of the late 19th century—was first created in 1881 by a stage-struck twenty-one-year-old Parisian student, Paul Margueritte, who spent his summer vacations outside the city putting on amateur theatre in an old barn loft. For the rest of the decade, Margueritte, although embarked upon a successful literary career, continued to present his pantomime wheneve…
Tadeusz Kantor (1915- ): A Visual Artist Works Magic on the Polish Stage
Interview: Directing in Poland. A Confrontation with History: Zygmunt Hubner
Leonid Andreyev: An Introduction
Requiem
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