Playwrights on playwriting
Subtitle: the meaning and making of modern drama from Ibsen to Ionesco
By: Introd. by John Gassner
Series: A Dramabook -- D29; Dramabook -- D29.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Copyright date: 1960
Subjects: Drama; Technique
Notes: Bibliography: p. [289]-294.
Table of contents: title: The task of the poet / H. Ibsen; title: Naturalism on the stage / E. Zola; title: On modern drama and modern theatre / A. Strindberg; title: Advice to playwrights / A. Chekhov; title: The tragic in daily life / M. Maeterlinck; title: Language, character, and construction / W.B. Yeats; title: Some platitudes concerning drama / J. Galsworthy; title: How to write a popular play / B. Shaw; title: The authority of the theatre / F.G. Lorca; title: Two laws / J. Giraudoux; title: Memoranda on masks / E. O'Neill; title: A short organum for the theatre / B. Brecht; title: Some thoughts on playwriting / T. Wilder; title: Forgers of myths / J. Sartre; title: Why verse? / C. Fry; title: Problems of the theatre / F. Duerrenmatt; title: Declaration / J. Osborne; title: The starting point / E. Ionesco; title: A doll's house. Ghosts. Hedda Gabler / H. Ibsen; title: Miss Julie. A dream play / A. Strindberg; title: Ivanov / A. Chekhov; title: Widowers' houses: a collaboration / W.A. Shaw; title: The playboy of the western world. The tinker's wedding / J.M. Synge; title: Six characters in search of an author / L. Pirandello; title: Transfiguration.  Masses and man. The machine-wreckers. Hoppla, such is life! / E. Toller; title: Mariana Pineda. The shoemaker's prodigious wife / F.G. Lorca; title: The sea plays. Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown / E. O'Neill; title: Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel / J. Cocteau; title: Cock-a-doodle dandy / S. O'Casey; title: Murder in the cathedral. The family reunion. The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot; title: Death of a salesman / A. Miller; title: Camino real / T. Williams; title: The bald soprano. The chairs / E. Ionesco; title: Appendix: From Hebbel's journals.