Third Voice
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Third Voice

Modern British and American Drama

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Third Voice

Modern British and American Drama

About this book

In this stimulating survey of the entire field of modern English verse drama, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot are regarded as the key figures. Shorter studies are included of Christopher Fry, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Richard Eberhart.

Differing from some contemporary critics, Mr. Donoghue believes that verse drama is a major creative art-form of our literature, with a vigorous present and promise of a vital future. In a persuasive and perceptive exposition of this belief, he considers such questions as the nature of dramatic verse, the mood play, the relation between dramatic verse and the behavior of speech, the necessity of distinguishing between "verse drama" and "poetic drama" or "theatre poetry."

Originally published in 1963.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction. On Poésie De Théâtre
  4. 1 On Verse in Drama: A "Neutral" Survey
  5. 2 Five Anecdotes To Stand For Many
  6. 3 Yeats and The Clean Outline
  7. 4 Drame â Thèse: Auden and Cummings
  8. 5 T. S. Eliot and The Complete Consort: Murder In The Cathedral
  9. 6 The Family Reunion
  10. 7 The Cocktail Party
  11. 8 The Confidential Clerk
  12. 9 The Elder Statesman: Eliot in Fair Colonus
  13. 10 Eliot's Verse Line
  14. 11 Christopher Fry's Theatre of Words
  15. 12 The Mood Play in Verse: Stevens,Eberhart, and Macleish
  16. 13 Ezra Pound and Women of Trachis
  17. 14 Richard Eberhart: The Visionary Farms
  18. 15 On Speaking The Verse
  19. 16 Theatre Poetry and Dramatic Verse
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Index