- Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretations
- Includes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global view of modern drama
- Considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society, and politics on the formation of modern dramatic literature
- Takes an interpretative and analytical approach to modern dramatic texts rather than focusing on production history
- Includes coverage of the ways in which staging practices, design concepts, and acting styles informed the construction of the dramas
- English
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A History of Modern Drama, Volume I
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Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I: Trauma Drama
- Part II: Modernist Beginnings
- Part III: Realism
- Part IV: Dissociated Sensibility
- Part V: Avant Garde
- Part VI: Epic Modernism
- Part VII: The Divided Self of American Drama
- Part VIII: Hell Is Other People
- Part IX: Modernist Improvising
- Part X: Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
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