Marvin Carlson

Marvin Carlson (* 1935 ) is an American theater scholar .

He mainly works on the theory and history of the theater, with no epochal limitation from the theater theory of antiquity to the 21st century. His most widely distributed book, Theories of the Theater (Cornell University Press, 1993) has been translated into seven languages. In addition, he has published mainly on Western European theater history from the 18th to the 20th century. He is the editor of Western European Stages magazine .

Marvin Carlson has taught at Cornell University and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York , as a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Indiana University . He has received numerous awards and grants for his scientific work, most recently an honorary doctorate in 2005 from the University of Athens .

His most recent book publication, the 2006 monograph Speaking in Tongues , is a treatise on language on the stage, for example as dialect, in various cultural contexts and in the experimental theater of postmodernism.

Publications

• Performance: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 1980 ISBN 978-0415137034
• Theories of the Theater: A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks to the Present. Cornell University Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0801481543
• Theater Semiotics: Signs of Life. Indiana University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0253313157
• Voltaire and the Theater of the Eighteenth Century. Greenwood Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0313303029
• Speaking in Tongues: Languages ​​at Play in the Theater. University of Michigan Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0472115471

Web links

• Literature by and about Marvin Carlson in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurzbiographie (English)