Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett : essays from Modern drama Marker, Frederick J 1936-2019 editor Innes, Christopher 1941-2017 editor text bibliography onc Toronto Buffalo University of Toronto Press 1998 monographic eng

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xv, 293 pages ; 23 cm. 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 to 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. The choice of these four dramatists as the subjects of the volume reflects the large percentage of essays dealing with their work published by Modern Drama, the leading scholarly journal in the field, which in turn is a measure of the centrality of these particular playwrights in critical discourse. The essays here have been selected to cover the main elements of the work of each of the four dramatists, with the aim of creating a useful teaching tool for university courses. Since some of the essays selected go back to the 1960s, while others are very contemporary, this volume also offers a perspective on the historical development of critical theory. 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 Edited by Frederick J. Marker, Christopher Innes. Originally published: 1963/64-1994. Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-283) and index. e------ Ibsen, Henrik Johan 1828-1906 Crítica e interpretación Strindberg, August (Johan August) 1849-1912 Crítica e interpretación Pirandello, Luigi 1867-1936 Crítica e interpretación Beckett, Samuel 1906-1989 Crítica e interpretación European drama 19th century History and criticism Teatro europeo Historia y crítica European drama 20th century History and criticism Modernism (Literature) Europe Modernismo (Literatura) Europa PN 1851 M689 1998 809.2/9/09409034 9780802082060 0802082068 99170702 CU 990208 20250815161236.0 4996997 eng