Francis Fergusson

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According to Wikipedia, Francis Fergusson was a Harvard and Oxford-educated teacher and critic, a theorist of drama and mythology who wrote The Idea of a Theater, a book about drama. He contributed an introductory essay to S. H. Butcher’s 1961 translation of Aristotle’s Poetics. His other works include Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio, which includes his translations of many passages. In The Rarer Action , a volume in tribute to Francis Fergusson, the critic Allen Tate wrote: "The Idea of a Theater is a work comparable in range and depth with Eric Auerbach's Mimesis. There is no other work by an American critic of which this can be said."

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Francis Fergusson's Published Works

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The Poetics (1960) (67)
The Idea of a Theater (1950) (62)
The idea of a theater : a study of ten plays the art of drama in changing perspective / Francis Fergusson (1949) (18)
Shakespeare: The Pattern In His Carpet (1970) (11)
The Rarer action : essays in honor of Francis Fergusson (1971) (10)
The human image in dramatic literature : essays (1957) (10)
Dante's drama of the mind (1953) (7)
Dante Studies 1. Commedia: Elements of Structure (1955) (4)
The Notion of "Action" (1964) (3)
Dante's Drama of the Mind: A Modern Reading of the Purgatorio (1953) (3)
Trope and Allegory: Themes Common to Dante and Shakespeare (1977) (3)
Macbeth as the Imitation of an Action (1963) (2)
Hamlet: The Analogy of Action (1949) (2)
More Brass than Enduring (1962) (2)
CHAPTER VI. THE THEATRICALITY OF SHAW AND PIRANDELLO (1950) (1)
Shakespeare's tragedies of monarchy : Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear (1962) (1)
The Idea of a Theatre@@@The Idea of a Theatre; A Study of Ten Plays; The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective. (1950) (1)
The Art Series (1938) (1)
Two Perspectives on European Literature (1954) (1)
Famine and Water Supply in Western Rajputana: Discussion (1939) (1)
Literary landmarks: Essays on the theory and practice of literature (1975) (1)
After Paranoia, What Next? (1963) (1)
Propoxyphene and friends. (1970) (1)
Books Received (1953) (0)
The fundamental principles of water power engineering : describing Types, applications and operation of water turbines, and developing the fundamental formulae of water power engineering (0)
CHAPTER 7. THE PATTERN OF LIBERATION (1953) (0)
CHAPTER II. BERENICE: THE ACTION AND THEATER OF REASON (1950) (0)
INTRODUCTION. THE PARTIAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE MODERN THEATER (1950) (0)
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATIONS IN THE TEXT (1953) (0)
Caissons as Dam Foundations (1949) (0)
CHAPTER 17. CANTO XXV: THE PERILOUS PASSAGE (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 9. CANTO XVI: REASON IN DARKNESS (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 5. ON THE DRAMATIC COHERENCE OF THE CANTO (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 13. THE NEW THIRST (1953) (0)
Happy Hour (Program) (1945) (0)
CHAPTER IV. HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK: THE ANALOGY OF ACTION (1950) (0)
Bennington College Lecture Series, 1943-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics (1943) (0)
Drama in the Western World : 15 plays with essays (1968) (0)
CHAPTER 15. THE NEW LIFE OF HISTORY (1953) (0)
Francis Fergusson to President Leigh Regarding Dr. Richard Goetz (Memorandum) (1940) (0)
A Visit to the Continent (1949) (0)
INTRODUCTION. THE IDEA OF A THEATER (1950) (0)
CHAPTER 22. THE POETRY OF THE END OF THE EARTHLY JOURNEY (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 1. THE METAPHOR OF THE JOURNEY (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 23. MATELDA: THE LETTER FOR THE SPIRIT (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 16. THE FRAGRANT TREES: PARADOXES OF HUMAN NOURISHMENT (1953) (0)
Letter from Francis Fergusson to Helen Webster Feeley '37 (1959) (0)
CHAPTER V. GHOSTS AND THE CHERRY ORCHARD: THE THEATER OF MODERN REALISM (1950) (0)
CHAPTER III. TRISTAN UND ISOLDE: THE ACTION AND THEATER OF PASSION (1950) (0)
Book Review:Dante, Poet of the Secular World Erich Auerbach, Ralph Manheim (1963) (0)
Discussion of "Stabilizing Constructed Masonry Dams By Means of Cement Injections" (1936) (0)
Two Acts from Dante’s Drama of the Mind (1952) (0)
Ministry of Angels (1953) (0)
CHAPTER VII. POETRY OF THE THEATER AND THE POET IN THE THEATER (1950) (0)
APPENDIX. ON CERTAIN TECHNICAL CONCEPTS USED IN THIS STUDY (1950) (0)
Action as Rational: Racine's Berenice (1948) (0)
CHAPTER 20. THE DEVELOPED FORM OF THE PURGATORIO (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 11. CANTO XVIII: THE FRUIT OF PHILOSOPHY (1953) (0)
Art-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics (1938) (0)
CHAPTER 2. BEFORE UNDERSTANDING (1953) (0)
DISCUSSION. HAMILTON FALLS HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME (1959) (0)
Beatrice of Dante's Divine Comedy (1971) (0)
CHAPTER 10. CANTO XVII: THE ANALOGOUS FORMS OF HUMAN LOVES (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 3. THE FINE VEIL OF POETRY (1953) (0)
CHAPTER I. OEDIPUS REX: THE TRAGIC RHYTHM OF ACTION (1950) (0)
CHAPTER 21. BEATRICE: CENTER OF THE ALLEGORY (1953) (0)
Dissipation of Energy of Flow over Dam Crest (1948) (0)
CHAPTER 14. CANTO XXI: A GHOSTLY SCENE OF RECOGNITION (1953) (0)
Shakespeare's comedies of romance : A midsummer night's dream, Much ado about nothing, As you like it, Twelfth night (1963) (0)
CHAPTER 12. ON INTERPRETING VIRGIL (1953) (0)
Discussion Groups Wednesday, 9:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. (1954) (0)
The Drama, Descending (1950) (0)
Science and Culture-Lecture Series Listing of Speakers and Topics (1937) (0)
Course Offerings for Fall Term 1947 (1947) (0)
CHAPTER 4. CANTO IX: THE PROPHETIC FIRST NIGHT (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 6. VIRGIL'S GUIDANCE (1953) (0)
"Don Perlimplín": el teatro-poesía de Lorca (1975) (0)
Science and Culture-Bennington College Lecture Series (1937) (0)
CHAPTER 8. CANTO XV: THE LIGHT OF THE MIND (1953) (0)
PHENOMENA AND CONTROL OF HYDRAULIC PIPE LINES (1929) (0)
Famine and Water Supply in Western Rajputana (1939) (0)
The Pilgrim on the Threshold of Purgation (1952) (0)
Dante and Shakespeare@@@Trope and Allegory. (1978) (0)
CHAPTER 18: THE DOLCE STIL NUOVO (1953) (0)
CHAPTER 19. CANTO XXVII: LOVE'S SACRIFICE (1953) (0)
The fundamental principles of water power engineering (0)

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