Twentieth-Century European Drama

1994. Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-0-333-53284-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Insights

This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Docherty, Brian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Thirteen Essays in Search of a Reader; B.Docherty - Female Masks: Luigi Pirandello's Plays for Women; S.Bassnett - The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Practice; R.Speirs - Witkewicz and the Theatre of Death; R.Howard - Beckett's Stage of Deconstruction; L.St John Butler - Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty; B.L.Knapp - Ionesco's Plays: A Conspiracy of the Mind; M.J.Hayes - The Heroic World of Jean Anouilh; A.Amoia - Arrabal's Theatre of Liberation; C.Schumacher - Artaud and Genet's The Maids; G.Day - Weiss/Brooke: Marat/Sade; G.Holderness - Time, Identity and Being: The World of Vaclav Havel; P.Majer - The Germans in Britain; A-M.Taylor - The Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Laughing All the Way to the Revolution; A.Montgomery - Index

Über Autor(innen)

BRIAN DOCHERTY is a Tutor in Literature for Birbeck College Centre for Extra-Mural Studies in London. He is co-editor of , editor of , and