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Playwrights on Playwriting : [electronic book] : From Ibsen to Ionesco /

Contributor(s): Cole, Toby, 1916- [editor].
Publisher: N. Y. : Cooper Square Press, 2001Description: 1 online resource (227 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781461661221.Subject(s): Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 -- Technique | Ionesco, Eugène -- Technique | Drama -- Technique | Playwriting | AuthorshipDDC classification: 808.2 Online resources: Access ebook here
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Credos and Concepts -- The Task of the Poet -- Naturalism on the Stage -- On Modern Drama and Modern Theatre -- Advice to Playwrights -- The Tragic in Daily Life -- Language, Character, and Construction -- Some Platitudes Concerning Drama -- How to Write a Popular Play -- The Authority of the Theatre -- Two Laws -- Memoranda on Masks -- A Short Organum for the Theatre -- Some Thoughts on Playwriting -- Forgers of Myths -- Why Verse? -- Problems of the Theatre -- Declaration.
The Starting Point -- Part 2 Creations -- A Doll's House -- Ghosts -- Hedda Gabler -- Miss Julie -- A Dream Play -- Ivanov -- Widowers' Houses: A Collaboration -- The Playboy of the Western World -- The Tinker's Wedding -- Six Characters in Search of an Author -- Transfiguration -- Masses and Man -- The Machine-Wreckers -- Hoppla, Such Is Life! -- Mariana Pineda -- The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife -- The Sea Plays -- Beyond the Horizon -- The Emperor Jones -- The Hairy Ape -- The Great God Brown -- Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel -- Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -- Murder in the Cathedral -- The Family Reunion.
The Cocktail Party -- Death of a Salesman -- Camino Real -- The Bald Soprano -- The Chairs -- Appendix From Hebbel's Journals -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Dramatists from the past 200 years, among them Chekhov, Shaw, O'Neill, and Miller, speak on their dramatic credos and on their specific plays.
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Frist published in 1960.

Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Credos and Concepts -- The Task of the Poet -- Naturalism on the Stage -- On Modern Drama and Modern Theatre -- Advice to Playwrights -- The Tragic in Daily Life -- Language, Character, and Construction -- Some Platitudes Concerning Drama -- How to Write a Popular Play -- The Authority of the Theatre -- Two Laws -- Memoranda on Masks -- A Short Organum for the Theatre -- Some Thoughts on Playwriting -- Forgers of Myths -- Why Verse? -- Problems of the Theatre -- Declaration.

The Starting Point -- Part 2 Creations -- A Doll's House -- Ghosts -- Hedda Gabler -- Miss Julie -- A Dream Play -- Ivanov -- Widowers' Houses: A Collaboration -- The Playboy of the Western World -- The Tinker's Wedding -- Six Characters in Search of an Author -- Transfiguration -- Masses and Man -- The Machine-Wreckers -- Hoppla, Such Is Life! -- Mariana Pineda -- The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife -- The Sea Plays -- Beyond the Horizon -- The Emperor Jones -- The Hairy Ape -- The Great God Brown -- Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel -- Cock-A-Doodle Dandy -- Murder in the Cathedral -- The Family Reunion.

The Cocktail Party -- Death of a Salesman -- Camino Real -- The Bald Soprano -- The Chairs -- Appendix From Hebbel's Journals -- Bibliography -- Index.

Dramatists from the past 200 years, among them Chekhov, Shaw, O'Neill, and Miller, speak on their dramatic credos and on their specific plays.

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