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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd

Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd

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Series: Modern Drama in Theory & Practice, Book 2

General Drama

ISBN10: 0521296293
ISBN13: 9780521296298
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 9 1983
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
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 Lugné-Poe's Théatre 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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