description: This highly acclaimed critical exploration of modern drama begins with Buchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater-Strinberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, and Handke. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years.
language: English
title: The making of modern drama;: A study of Büchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Handke
titlecomplete: The making of modern drama;: A study of Büchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, Handke
ratings_count: 16
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux