Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: 2

Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: 2

by JohnL.Styan (Author)

Synopsis

This book was first published in 1981. The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Lugne-Poe's Theatre de Le'Oeuvre. Jarry is seen as the precursor of surrealism; later symbolist elements are found in the plays of Claudel, Giraudoux, Yeats, Eliot, Lorca and Pirandello. Artaud's theatre of cruelty is related to the work of Peter Brook. The theatre of the absurd is illustrated in Sartre, Beckett, Pinter and Ionesco. Recent avant-garde theatre in America and Britain also reveals elements of symbolism.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 238
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09 Jun 1983

ISBN 10: 0521296293
ISBN 13: 9780521296298