Sources of Dramatic Theory Voltaire to Hugo

The second volume in Sources of Dramatic Theory includes the major theoretical writing on drama and theatre 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.Wilson, Jean is the author of 'Sources of Dramatic Theory Voltaire to Hugo' with ISBN 9780521326957 and ISBN 0521326958.