Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Valery Briusov
Introduction 22
Against Naturalism in the Theatre 24
Aleksandr Blok
Introduction 30
The Dictatorship of the Director 34
For a Theatre of Action 37
Vera Fiodorovna Komissarzhevskaya 40
The Puppet Show 42
The Rose and the Cross 54
Viacheslav Ivanov
Introduction 106
The Need for Dionysian Theatre 109
Annensky as Dramatist 117
Andrei Bely
Introduction 122
The Cherry Orchard 125
Against Reviving the Greek Theatre 129
Fyodor Sologub
Introduction 136
The Theatre of the Single Will 140
The Triumph of Death 157
Mikhail Kuzmin
Introduction 193
The Comedy of Alexis, Man of God 197
The Venetian Madcaps 217
Innokenty Annensky
Introduction 238
Thamyris Kitharodos 241
Aleksei Remizov
Introduction 304
The Tragedy of Judas, Prince of Iscariot 308
Leonid Andreyev
Introduction 352
Theatre and the Inner Life 355
The Failure of the Symbolist Theatre 358
Chekhov as Panpsychologist 360
The Theatre of the Future 363
Notes 365
