An edition of Drama from Ibsen to Eliot (1952)

Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.

by Raymond Williams

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An edition of Drama from Ibsen to Eliot (1952)

Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.

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1 Drama from Ibsen to Eliot 1965, Oxford University Press	zzzz Locate
2 Drama from Ibsen to Eliot 1964, Penguin Books in English	zzzz Locate
3 Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. 1961, Chatto in English	zzzz Locate
4 Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. 1954, Chatto & Windus in English	zzzz Locate
5 Drama from Ibsen to Eliot. 1953, Oxford University Press in English	aaaa Locate
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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.

Edition Notes

Published in: New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 809.2
Library of Congress: PN1851 .W5 1953

The Physical Object

Pagination: 282 p.
Number of pages: 282

Edition Identifiers

Open Library: OL6131433M
LCCN: 53002703
OCLC/WorldCat: 239405

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Work ID: OL3747443W

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Drama from Ibsen to Eliot.

by Raymond Williams