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Twentieth-century European drama

herausgegeben vonBrian Docherty

Abstrakt

This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

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Introduction

thirteen essays in search of a reader

Brian Docherty

pp.1-12

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Female masks

Luigi Pirandello's plays for women

Susan Bassnett

pp.13-25

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The theatre of Bertolt Brecht

theory and practice

Ronald Speirs

pp.26-41

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_3
Witkiewicz and the theatre of death Roger Howard

pp.42-62

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Beckett's stage of deconstruction Lance St John Butler

pp.63-77

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Antonin Artaud and the theatre of cruelty Bettina L. Knapp

pp.78-91

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Ionesco's plays

a conspiracy of the mind

Michael J. Hayes

pp.92-108

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The heroic world of Jean Anouilh Alba Amoia

pp.109-123

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_8
Arrabal's theatre of liberation Claude Schumacher

pp.124-145

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Artaud and Genet's the maids Gary Day

pp.146-161

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Weiss/brook

marat/sade

Graham Holderness

pp.162-171

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_11
Time, identity and being Peter Majer

pp.172-182

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_12
The Germans in Britain Anna-Marie Taylor

pp.183-202

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_13
The theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame Angela Montgomery

pp.203-220

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0_14

Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Ort: Basingstoke

Year: 1994

Seiten: 228

Series: Insights

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23073-0

ISBN (hardback): 978-0-333-53285-0

ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-23073-0

Referenz:

Docherty Brian (1994) Twentieth-century European drama. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.