Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Drama as literature ; "Character" and "Story" ; Dramatic speech and language ; Conventions of performance ; Performance in contemporary practice ; Critical method in drama; title: Henrik Ibsen : The effect of the public reputation of Ibsen on criticism ; The early plays of the intrigue theatre ; The non-theatrical plays, Brand and Peer Gynt ; The new kind of naturalist prose play ; The question of symbolism ; The last plays; title: August Strindberg : The penalties of a biographical life ; The experiments in "conflict" plays ; The Road to Damascus ; Easter ; The later Kammarspel; title: Anton Chekhov : The "sacred art" of naturalism ; The Seagull ; Refinement and revelation ; The Cherry Orchard; title: Bernard Shaw " Iconoclast and ikon ; Shaw and the theatre ; Candida ; Back to Methuselah ; Saint Joan; title: J.M. Synge : The "full flavour" of speech ; The folk plays ; Playboy of the Western World ; Deirdre of the Sorrows ; Note the colour of Sean O'Casey; title: Two social plays : The Weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann ; Hoppla! / Ernest Toller; title: Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author ; "teatro grottesco" and "teatro del specchio" ; Cosi e (se vi pare) ; Henry the Fourth; title: Jean Anouilh : a comment : The use of myth as form; title: W.B. Yeats : Yeats's double contribution ; Intentions and discoveries ; Making a theatre ; Early and middle plays ; The plays for dancers; title: T.S. Eliot : The scope of Eliot's drama ; Sweeney Agonistes ; The Rock ; Murder in the Cathedral ; The Cocktail Party ; Eliot's plays in performance; title: Some verse dramatists : Auden and Isherwood ; The Faber dramatists ; Christopher Fry; title: Criticism into drama : Some functions of criticism, and its relation to creative work in the drama in the last hundred years.