| Description |
viii, 316 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Theater--theory/text/performance
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Around the absurd / Ruby Cohn -- Dagny and Lulu / Jan Kott --Maeterlinck in the light of the absurd / Katharine Worth -- O'Neill and absurdity / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Tradition and innovation in Ionesco's La Cantatrice chauve / James Knowlson -- Late modernism ; Samuel Beckett and the art of the oeuvre / H. Porter Abbott -- Beckett, Shakespeare, and the making of theory / Charles R. Lyons -- Harold Pinter/politics / Benedict Nightingale -- Peter Barnes and the problem of goodness / Bernard F. Dukore -- A trick of the light : Tom Stoppard's Hapgood and postabsurdist theater / Hersh Zeifman -- Hen in a foxhouse : the absurdist plays of Maria Irene Fornes / Toby Silverman Zinman -- The internationalization of the Paris stage / Rosette C. Lamont -- Framing actuality : thirty years of experimental theater, 1959-89 / Theodore Shank -- The absurd, to and fro / Bernard Weiner -- The oversight of ceaseless eyes / Herbert Blau -- After the absurd : rethinking realism and a few other isms / Enoch Brater. |
| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater of the absurd.
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| Added Author |
Brater, Enoch.
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Cohn, Ruby.
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| ISBN |
0472081934 (pbk.) |
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0472102052 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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