| Description |
xx, 299 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
A Dramabook |
| Contents |
The task of the poet / Henrik Ibsen -- Naturalism on the stage / Émile Zola -- On modern drama and modern theatre / August Strindberg -- Advice to playwrights / Anton Chekhov -- The tragic in daily life / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Language, character, and construction / William B. Yeats -- Some platitudes concerning drama / John Galsworthy -- How to write a popular play / Bernard Shaw -- The authority of the theatre / Federico García Lorca-- Two laws / Jean Giraudoux -- Memoranda on masks / Eugene O'Neill -- A short organum for the theatre / Bertolt Brecht -- Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder -- Forgers of myths / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Why verse? / Christopher Fry -- Problems of the theatre / Friedrich Duerrenmatt -- Declaration / John Osborne -- The starting point / Eugene Ionesco -- A doll's house Ghosts Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Miss Julie A dream play / August Strindberg -- Ivanov / Anton Chekhov -- Widowers' houses: a collaboration / William Archer, Bernard Shaw -- The playboy of the western world The tinker's wedding / John Millington Synge -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Transfiguration Masses and man The machine-wreckers Hoppla, such is life! / Ernst Toller -- Mariana Pineda The shoemaker's prodigious wife / Federico García Lorca -- The sea plays Beyond the horizon The Emperor Jones The hairy ape The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Jean Cocteau -- Cock-a-doodle dandy / Sean O'Casey -- Murder in the cathedral The family reunion The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Camino real / Tennessee Williams -- The bald soprano The chairs / Eugene Ionesco -- From Hebbel's journals |
| Notes |
"A Dramabook." |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [289]-294 |
| Subject |
Drama -- Technique.
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Playwriting.
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| Author |
Cole, Toby, 1916-
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| LC no. |
60007642 |
| ISBN |
(paperback) |
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(clothbound) |
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