| Description |
xiii, 368 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Tragedy and the Tragic Spirit -- Aeschylus and the Vision of Tragedy -- The Tragic Turbulence of Sophoclean Drama -- The Drama of Euripides -- Comedy and the Comic Spirit -- Aristophanic Comedy: The Conscience of a Conservative -- Some Thoughts on Roman Drama -- The Modern Theatre -- Ibsen's Ghosts as Tragedy -- Strindberg and the Abyss -- The Plays of Chekhov -- Character as Destiny in Hofmannsthal's Electra -- The Collapse of the Shavian Cosmos -- Lorca's Togetherness -- The Transformation of the Individual in the Modern Theatre -- The Disavowal of Identity in the Modern Theatre -- Bertolt Brecht: Poet of the Collective -- The Purgatorial Theatre of Ugo Betti -- Thornton Wilder and the Tragic Sense of Life -- Duerrenmatt's The Physicists and the Grotesque -- The Theatre in Search of a Fix -- Engagement/Disengagement in the Contemporary Theatre -- Anger and After: A Decade of the British Theatre -- The Theatre of John Arden -- The Achievement of Arthur Miller -- Where the People Are |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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| LC no. |
72012862 |
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