| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- DATES OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- The Dangerous Seductions of the Past: Ibsen's Counter-Discourse to Modernity -- Patterns of Structure and Character in Ibsen's Rosmersholm -- Marriage, Metaphysics and The Lady from the Sea Problem -- The Unspoken Text in Hedda Gabler -- Ibsen's Endgame: A Reconsideration of When We Dead Awaken -- Strindberg and Ibsen: Toward a Cubism of Time in Drama -- Strindberg's Miss Julie and the Legend of Salomé -- Strindberg's To Damascus: Archetypal Autobiography -- Pirandello's Mirror -- Pirandellian Theatre Games: Spectator as Victim -- An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte -- Sicilian Themes and the Restructured Stage: The Dialectic of Fiction and Drama in the Work of Luigi Pirandello -- Six Characters: Pirandello's Last Tape -- Godotology: There's Lots of Time in Godot -- Action and Play in Beckett's Theater -- Acting for Beckett -- Beckett as Director: The Manuscript Production Notebooks and Critical Interpretation -- Being and Non-Being: Samuel Beckett's Not I -- Samuel Beckett's Media Plays -- Reading as Theatre: Understanding Defamiliarization in Beckett's Art -- Roundelay -- SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
European drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- Europe
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European drama.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marker, F. J
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Innes, Christopher
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| ISBN |
9781442677319 |
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1442677317 |
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