Mirrors of our playing : paradigms and presences in modern drama /
Whitaker, Thomas R.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-295) and index.
Playing with the playboy: Synge and tradition -- The music of serious farce: Wilde, Shaw, Orton, and Stoppard -- Communities of heartbreak: from Chekhov and Shaw to Friel and Smith -- Playing hell: Sartre, Beckett, Genet, and Pinter -- The presence of Byron -- Wham, bam, thank you Sam -- Soyinka's roads to the abyss -- Brook and the purpose of playing -- Afterword: Angels in America -- Works cited -- Index.
English drama
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)