An edition of Drama from Ibsen to Eliot
(1952)
Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.
by Raymond Williams
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Table of Contents
Introduction : Drama as literature ; "Character" and "Story" ; Dramatic speech and language ; Conventions of performance ; Performance in contemporary practice ; Critical method in drama
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
August Strindberg : The penalties of a biographical life ; The experiments in "conflict" plays ; The Road to Damascus ; Easter ; The later Kammarspel
Anton Chekhov : The "sacred art" of naturalism ; The Seagull ; Refinement and revelation ; The Cherry Orchard
Bernard Shaw " Iconoclast and ikon ; Shaw and the theatre ; Candida ; Back to Methuselah ; Saint Joan
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
Two social plays : The Weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann ; Hoppla! / Ernest Toller
Luigi Pirandello : Six Characters in Search of an Author ; "teatro grottesco" and "teatro del specchio" ; Cosi e (se vi pare) ; Henry the Fourth
Jean Anouilh : a comment : The use of myth as form
W.B. Yeats : Yeats's double contribution ; Intentions and discoveries ; Making a theatre ; Early and middle plays ; The plays for dancers
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
Some verse dramatists : Auden and Isherwood ; The Faber dramatists ; Christopher Fry
Criticism into drama : Some functions of criticism, and its relation to creative work in the drama in the last hundred years.
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