Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett : : Essays from Modern Drama / / ed. by Christopher Innes, F.J. Marker.

This collection of essays, drawn from scholarship over the last forty years, explores the drama of four of the most influential proponents of modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, and Beckett. Although there are other dramatists who also contributed to Modernism, these four ill...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Dates of Original Publication
  • Introduction
  • The Dangerous Seductions of the Past: Ibsen's Counter-Discourse to Modernity
  • Patterns of Structure and Character in Ibsen's Rosmersholm
  • Marriage, Metaphysics and The Lady from the Sea Problem
  • The Unspoken Text in Hedda Gabler
  • Ibsen's Endgame: A Reconsideration of When We Dead Awaken
  • Strindberg and Ibsen: Toward a Cubism of Time in Drama
  • Strindberg's Miss Julie and the Legend of Salomé
  • Strindberg's To Damascus: Archetypal Autobiography
  • Pirandello's Mirror
  • Pirandellian Theatre Games: Spectator as Victim
  • An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte
  • Sicilian Themes and the Restructured Stage: The Dialectic of Fiction and Drama in the Work of Luigi Pirandello
  • Six Characters: Pirandello's Last Tape
  • Godotology: There's Lots of Time in Godot
  • Action and Play in Beckett's Theater
  • Acting for Beckett
  • Beckett as Director: The Manuscript Production Notebooks and Critical Interpretation
  • Being and Non-Being: Samuel Beckett's Not I
  • Samuel Beckett's Media Plays
  • Reading as Theatre: Understanding Defamiliarization in Beckett's Art
  • Roundelay
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Contributors
  • Index