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Modernism in European drama : Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett : essays from Modern drama / Edited by Frederick J. Marker, Christopher Innes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1998Description: xv, 293 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802082060
  • 0802082068
Other title:
  • Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett [Cover title]
Uniform titles:
  • Modern drama.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.2/9/09409034
LOC classification:
  • PN 1851 M689 1998
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1851 M689 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000195247

Originally published: 1963/64-1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-283) and index.

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

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.

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