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Hill and Wang
Language
English
Pages
299

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Subjects
Drama, Technique

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Playwrights on playwriting: the meaning and making of modern drama from Ibsen to Ionesco. Introd. by John Gassner
1966, Hill and Wang
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1961, Hill and Wang
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Table of Contents

The task of the poet / H. Ibsen
Naturalism on the stage / E. Zola
On modern drama and modern theatre / A. Strindberg
Advice to playwrights / A. Chekhov
The tragic in daily life / M. Maeterlinck
Language, character, and construction / W.B. Yeats
Some platitudes concerning drama / J. Galsworthy
How to write a popular play / B. Shaw
The authority of the theatre / F.G. Lorca
Two laws / J. Giraudoux
Memoranda on masks / E. O'Neill
A short organum for the theatre / B. Brecht
Some thoughts on playwriting / T. Wilder
Forgers of myths / J. Sartre
Why verse? / C. Fry
Problems of the theatre / F. Duerrenmatt
Declaration / J. Osborne
The starting point / E. Ionesco
A doll's house. Ghosts. Hedda Gabler / H. Ibsen
Miss Julie. A dream play / A. Strindberg
Ivanov / A. Chekhov
Widowers' houses: a collaboration / W.A. Shaw
The playboy of the western world. The tinker's wedding / J.M. Synge
Six characters in search of an author / L. Pirandello
Transfiguration. Masses and man. The machine-wreckers. Hoppla, such is life! / E. Toller
Mariana Pineda. The shoemaker's prodigious wife / F.G. Lorca
The sea plays. Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown / E. O'Neill
Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel / J. Cocteau
Cock-a-doodle dandy / S. O'Casey
Murder in the cathedral. The family reunion. The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot
Death of a salesman / A. Miller
Camino real / T. Williams
The bald soprano. The chairs / E. Ionesco
Appendix: From Hebbel's journals.

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Bibliography: p. [289]-294.

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Series
A Dramabook -- D29, Dramabook -- D29.
Copyright Date
1960

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808.2

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xx, 299 p.
Number of pages
299

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OL26887851M
Internet Archive
playwrightsonpla0000cole_s5r4
OCLC/WorldCat
338558

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