Masters of the drama.
Edition: 3d rev. and enl. ed.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1954
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 890
Subjects: Drama -- History and criticism; Dramatists
Notes: 71046

Bibliography: p. 805-840.
Table of contents: title: The first dramatist -- Aeschylus -"The father of tragedy" -- Sophocles, the serene -- Euripides, the modern -- Aristophanes, the poet of laughter -- Menander, Plautus, and Terence -- The playwrights of the Near East -- The playwrights of the Far East -- Playwrights of the church and the guild -- The journeymen of the Renaissance -- Lope de Vega and Calderon -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Ben Jonson and the "noble brood" -- Corneille and Racine: polite tragedy -- Molière and the comedy of society -- Goethe and the romantic spirit -- Romanticism over Europe -- Ibsen, the Viking of the drama -- The Scandinavian succession and Strindberg -- The journey men of the French succession -- Latin postscripts-Benavente and Pirandello -- Gerhart Hauptmann and the modern naturalism -- Hauptmann's fellow-travelers and the expressionist eruption -- Chekhov and the Russian realists -- Maxim Gorky and the Soviet drama -- John Millington Synge and the Irish muse -- Bernard Shaw and the British compromise -- Eugene O'Neill and the American scene -- The American galaxy -- Midcentury theatre and drama -- Midcentury summary.