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Twentieth-Century European Drama

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Brian Docherty

    1. Birkbeck College Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, London, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Thirteen Essays in Search of a Reader

    • Brian Docherty
    Pages 1-12

  3. Female Masks: Luigi Pirandello’s Plays for Women

    • Susan Bassnett
    Pages 13-25

  4. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: Theory and Practice

    • Ronald Speirs
    Pages 26-41

  5. Witkiewicz and the Theatre of Death

    • Roger Howard
    Pages 42-62

  6. Beckett’s Stage of Deconstruction

    • Lance St John Butler
    Pages 63-77

  7. Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty

    • Bettina L. Knapp
    Pages 78-91

  8. Ionesco’s Plays: A Conspiracy of the Mind

    • Michael J. Hayes
    Pages 92-108

  9. The Heroic World of Jean Anouilh

    • Alba Amoia
    Pages 109-123

  10. Arrabal’s Theatre of Liberation

    • Claude Schumacher
    Pages 124-145

  11. Artaud and Genet’s The Maids

    • Gary Day
    Pages 146-161

  12. Weiss/Brook: Marat/Sade

    • Graham Holderness
    Pages 162-171

  13. Time, Identity and Being

    • Peter Majer
    Pages 172-182

  14. The Germans in Britain

    • Anna-Marie Taylor
    Pages 183-202

  15. The Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame

    • Angela Montgomery
    Pages 203-220

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 221-228
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About this book

This volume offers critical and theoretical perspectives on some of the major figures in European drama in the twentieth century. There are thirteen essays covering Luigi Pirandello, Bertolt Brecht, Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Samuel Beckett, Antonin Artaud, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Anouilh, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Genet, Peter Weiss, Vaclav Havel, comtemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These specially commissioned essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College Centre for Extra-Mural Studies, London, UK

    Brian Docherty

About the editor

BRIAN DOCHERTY is a Tutor in Literature for Birbeck College Centre for Extra-Mural Studies in London. He is co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Suspense: Form Poe to Conan Doyle, editor of American Crime Fiction: Studies in the Genre, American Horror Fiction: From Brockden Brown to Stephen King, Twentieth-Century American Drama, Twentieth-Century European Drama, American Modernist Poetry, Twentieth-Century British Poetry, 1900-50, Twentieth-Century British Poetry, 1950-90, and The Beat Generation.

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