World drama from Æschylus to Anouilh.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1000
Subjects: Drama -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: From Athens to Rome.  The first dramatist : Æschylus -- The glory of the Greek theatre : Sophocles -- The dawn of realism : Euripides -- Aristophanes and the old comedy -- From Menander to the mimes -- Religious drama and profane during the Middle Ages -- The drama of the Renaissance. Comedy, tragedy, and melodrama in Italy -- The popular play : the commedia dell' arte -- French romanticism and classicism --The Spanish stage under Lope de Vega and Calderón -- The international theatre of the Jesuits -- The drama of the Renaissance : England -- The popular beginnings -- Shakespeare and his predecessors -- Early Seventeenth-Century tragedy and comedy -- The triumph of classicism. Racine and the tragedy of sentiment -- Molière and the comedy of manners -- The restoration comedy of manners -- The age of gentility, philosophy and sentimentalism. Tragedy and opera -- The growth of bourgeois comedy -- The wave of sentimentalism -- The romantic theatre. From tragedy to melodrama -- Comedy and extravaganza -- From the medieval to the materialistic. The realm of fancy -- The coming of realism -- Realism's triumph. The triumph of realism : Ibsen -- Strindberg and the play of the subconscious -- The independent theatre in Germany -- The play of ideas in France -- Realism in diverse lands : Italy, Spain, England, Russia -- Neo-romanticism in the theatre -- The drama of the orient. The Sanskrit drama -- The drama of China -- The Japanese drama -- Entering the Twentieth Century. The relics of the older realism -- The extension of the realistic -- The theatre symbolic and theatrical -- The poetic stage -- Purposeful laughter : George Bernard Shaw -- Drama between two wars. The American advent -- The drama of the individual -- The expressionistic movement -- Realism, social and otherwise -- The comic spirit and social unrest -- The vogue of the historical play -- The revival of poetic drama -- Eugene O’Neill -- The theatre in the midst of war, and after -- Conclusion.