History of Modern Drama.
Title:
History of Modern Drama.
Author:
Krasner, David.
ISBN:
9781444343731
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (415 pages)
Contents:
A History of Modern Drama -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Trauma Drama -- Chapter 2 The Price of Freedom -- Chapter 3 Unhinged Subjectivity -- Chapter 4 Aboulia -- Part II: Modernist Beginnings -- Chapter 5 Rising Symbolism -- Chapter 6 Rising Expressionism -- Part III: Realism -- Chapter 7 Rural Realism -- Chapter 8 Urban Realism -- Chapter 9 Optimistic Passion -- Chapter 10 The Campaign Against Earnestness -- Part IV: Dissociated Sensibility -- Chapter 11 Distorted Modernism -- Chapter 12 Lyrical Modernism -- Chapter 13 Sentimental Modernism -- Part V: Avant Garde -- Chapter 14 Eros and Thanatos -- Chapter 15 Robots and Automatons -- Chapter 16 Farce and Parody -- Part VI: Epic Modernism -- Chapter 17 Gaming the System -- Part VII: The Divided Self of American Drama -- Chapter 18 Illusions -- Chapter 19 Delusions -- Chapter 20 Dreams -- Chapter 21 Gender -- Chapter 22 Race -- Part VIII: Hell Is Other People -- Chapter 23 The Farce of Intimacy -- Chapter 24 The Tragedy of Intimacy -- Part IX: Modernist Improvising -- Chapter 25 Beckett Impromptu -- Part X: Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
"David Krasner's A History of Modern Drama is an impressive feat of synthesis. Krasner gives us not only detailed analyses of the most important playwrights and plays of the period, but also the cultural and political context in which they operated and which crucially shaped them.... This book fills a major gap and will prove to be an invaluable teaching tool." -Martin Puchner, Harvard University.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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