The vital lie : reality and illusion in modern drama / Anthony S. Abbott.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The vital lie
- Reality, illusion, and the more abundant life
- pt. 1. The Hegelians: Henrik Ibsen
- August Strindberg
- Anton Chekhov
- George Bernard Shaw
- John Millington Synge
- pt. 2. Lost and found: Luigi Pirandello
- Bertolt Brecht
- T.S. Eliot
- Eugene O'Neill
- Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
- pt. 3. Absurdism and after: Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
- Edward Albee
- Harold Pinter
- Theater as reality/reality as theater
- Reality and the hero.