Modernism in European Drama

, by Marker, Frederick J.; Innes, Christopher D.

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ISBN: 9780802082060 | 0802082068
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Copyright: 10/1/1998

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This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett.

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Introduction
The Dangerous Seductions of the Past: Ibsen's Counter-Discourse to Modernity	p. 3
Patterns of Structure and Character in Ibsen's Rosmersholm	p. 18
Marriage, Metaphysics and The Lady from the Sea Problem	p. 28
The Unspoken Text in Hedda Gabler	p. 40
Ibsen's Endgame: A Reconsideration of When We Dead Awaken	p. 57
Strindberg and Ibsen: Toward a Cubism of Time in Drama	p. 69
Strindberg's Miss Julie and the Legend of Salome	p. 92
Strindberg's To Damascus: Archetypal Autobiography	p. 110
Pirandello's Mirror	p. 127
Pirandellian Theatre Games: Spectator as Victim	p. 142
An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte	p. 151
Sicilian Themes and the Restructured Stage: The Dialectic of Fiction and Drama in the Work of Luigi Pirandello	p. 170
Six Characters: Pirandello's Last Tape	p. 181
Godotology: There's Lots of Time in Godot	p. 191
Action and Play in Beckett's Theater	p. 200
Acting for Beckett	p. 210
Beckett as Director: The Manuscript Production Notebooks and Critical Interpretation	p. 212
Being and Non-Being: Samuel Beckett's Not I	p. 228
Samuel Beckett's Media Plays	p. 241
Reading as Theatre: Understanding Defamiliarization in Beckett's Art	p. 259
Roundelay	p. 279
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 281
Contributors	p. 285
Index	p. 289
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