An idea of the drama : six modern playwrights in one movement : essays in revisionism / Bert Cardullo.
"This is a collection of ten long essays arranged around the primordial subject of realism and non-realism, or anti-realism, in the drama, as this subject manifests itself in modern Europe and contemporary America from Ibsen to Shaw to the symbolists, expressionists, surrealists, dadaists, futu...
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Frankfurt am Main :
Peter Lang,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- "The drama has not yet come, or Look back in longing"
- "The pillar of Ibsenian drama : Henrik Ibsen and the 'Pillars of Society', reconsidered
- "August Strindberg, 'The Ghost Sonata', and the making of modern drama
- Comedy and tragedy according to Shaw
- "Shaw, 'The Philanderer', and the (un)making of Shavian drama"
- "The doctored dilemma : Shaw's approach to tragedy in 'The Doctor's Dilemma'
- "The difficult B. B., the complex E. T. : rethinking the theory and practice of Brechtian theater"
- "The unbearable lightness of being : Getrude Stein's 'Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights' in the light of the twentieth century"
- "Bourgeois realism, imagistic abstraction, and the drama of Harold Pinter
- The idea of the avant-garde
- "In the vanguard : the military, scientific, and philosophical origens of theatrical avant-gardism" "'The avant-garde, the absurd, the un-American, and the postmodern : experimental theater and drama in the twentieth century, from Europe to the United States."