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Playwrights on playwriting : the meaning and making of modern drama from Ibsen to Ionesco
- Title
- Playwrights on playwriting : the meaning and making of modern drama from Ibsen to Ionesco / edited by Toby Cole ; introduction by John Gassner.
- Publication
- New York, Hill and Wang [1960]
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- Description
- 299 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- Donated by Sydney Harris.
- Alternative Title
- Meaning and making of modern drama from Ibsen to Ionesco
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-294).
- Contents
- The task of the poet / Henrik Ibsen -- Naturalism on the stage / Émile Zola -- On modern drama and modern theatre / August Strindberg -- Advice to playwrights / Anton Chekhov -- The tragic in daily life / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Language, character, and construction / William B. Yeats -- Some platitudes concerning drama / John Galsworthy -- How to write a popular play / Bernard Shaw -- The authority of the theatre / Federico García Lorca-- Two laws / Jean Giraudoux -- Memoranda on masks / Eugene O'Neill -- A short organum for the theatre / Bertolt Brecht -- Some thoughts on playwriting / Thornton Wilder -- Forgers of myths / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Why verse? / Christopher Fry -- Problems of the theatre / Friedrich Duerrenmatt -- Declaration / John Osborne -- The starting point / Eugene Ionesco -- A doll's house ; Ghosts ; Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen -- Miss Julie ; A dream play / August Strindberg -- Ivanov / Anton Chekhov -- Widowers' houses: a collaboration / William Archer, Bernard Shaw -- The playboy of the western world ; The tinker's wedding / John Millington Synge -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Transfiguration ; Masses and man ; The machine-wreckers ; Hoppla, such is life! / Ernst Toller -- Mariana Pineda ; The shoemaker's prodigious wife / Federico García Lorca -- The sea plays ; Beyond the horizon ; The Emperor Jones ; The hairy ape ; The great god Brown / Eugene O'Neill -- Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Jean Cocteau -- Cock-a-doodle dandy / Sean O'Casey -- Murder in the cathedral ; The family reunion ; The cocktail party / T.S. Eliot -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Camino real / Tennessee Williams -- The bald soprano ; The chairs / Eugene Ionesco -- From Hebbel's journals.
- LCCN
- 60007642
- OCLC
- ocm00710715
- 710715
- SCSB-205747
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library