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Title Modernism in European drama : Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett : essays from Modern drama / edited by Frederick J. Marker, Christopher Innes
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 293 pages)
Contents The dangerous seduction of the past: Ibsen's counter-discourse to modernity / Brian Johnston -- Patterns of structure and character in Ibsen's Rosmersholm / Marvin Calrson -- Marriage, metaphsics and The Lady from the Sea problem / Elinor Fuch -- The unspoken text in Hedda Gabler / Evert Sprinchorn -- Ibsen's endgame: a reconsideration of When We Dead Awaken / M.S. Barranger -- Strindbeg and Ibsen; toward a cubism of time in drama / Benjamin K. Bennett -- Strindberg's Miss Julie and the legend of Salome / Brian Parker -- Strindberg's To Damascus: archetypal autobiography / Diane Filby Gillespie -- Pirandello's mirror / Marvin Rosenberg -- Pirandellian theatre games: spectator as victim / J.L. Styan -- An author in search of characters: Pirandello and commedia dell'arte / James Fisher -- Sicilian themes and the restructured stage: the dialectic of fiction and drama in the work of Luigi Pirandello / Anne Paolucci -- Six Characters: Pirandello's last tape / Andrew K. Kennedy -- Godotology: there's lots of time in Godot / Richard Schechner -- Action and play in Beckett's theater / John Fletcher -- Acting for Beckett / Ruby Cohn -- Beckett as director: the manuscript production notebooks and critical interpretation / James Knowlson -- Being and non-being: Samuel Beckett's Not I / Hersh Zeifman -- Samuel Beckett's media plays / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Reading as theatre: understanding defamiliarization in Beckett's art / H. Porter Abbott -- Roundelay / Samuel Beckett
Summary "This collection of essays, drawn from scholarship over the last forty years, explores the drama of four of the most influential proponents of modernism in European drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, and Beckett. Although there are other dramatists who also contributed to Modernism, these four illustrate widely different and contrasting aspects of the movement. Since discussions of Modernism are generally restricted to poetry, novels, or the fine arts (painting, sculpture), examining theatre from this perspective covers new ground."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 fast
Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 fast
Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936 fast
Strindberg, August, 1849-1912 fast
Strindberg, August. swd
Beckett, Samuel. swd
Pirandello, Luigi. swd
Ibsen, Henrik. swd
Subject European drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
European drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Modernism (Literature) -- Europe
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
European drama
Modernism (Literature)
Drama
Modernisme (cultuur)
Toneelstukken.
Europeisk dramatik -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Europeisk dramatik -- historia -- 1800-talet.
Radioteater.
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Marker, Frederick J., editor.
Innes, Christopher, 1941- editor.
ISBN 9781442677319
1442677317
Other Titles Modern drama
Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett : essays from Modern drama
Essays from Modern drama
OTHER TI Modern drama