Seeds of Modern Drama
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: April 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780936839158
Subjects: Drama texts: 16th to 18th centuries; Plays & playwrights; Plays / Drama; Drama; Performing Arts/Dance; Theater - General; Anthologies (multiple authors); Performing Arts / Theater / General; Collections; Continental European; Collected works
First sentence: If you had been junketing around Europe during the theatrical season of 1892-93, with that day's equivalent of Theatre Arts magazine or some other continental guide to playgoing in your hand, these are some of the events you might have been led to: the premiere in London of the first play from the pen of Bernard Shaw, Widowers' Houses; the premieres in Paris of Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande and of Oscar Wilde's Salome; the first performances of Ibsen's The Master Builder, of Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers, of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, of Hermann Sudermann's Magda, of Arthur Schnitzler's Affairs of Anatol.