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Tragic Drama and Modern Society

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. John Orr

    1. University of Edinburgh, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. The Achievement of Henrik Ibsen

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Ibsen’s Norway

      • John Orr
      Pages 3-14

    3. Wilderness against Civilisation

      • John Orr
      Pages 15-22

    4. The Noble against the Bourgeois/Women against Marriage

      • John Orr
      Pages 23-42

    5. The Synthesis: John Gabriel Borkman

      • John Orr
      Pages 43-54

  3. Directions from Ibsen: Russia and Germany

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. The Everyday and the Transient in Chekhov’s Tragedy

      • John Orr
      Pages 57-83

    3. Germany’s Political Theatre: The Rise and Fall of Historical Tragedy

      • John Orr
      Pages 84-115

  4. The Irish Renaissance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Tragic Nobility and National Awakening

      • John Orr
      Pages 119-142

    3. Sean O’Casey: The Shadow of a City

      • John Orr
      Pages 143-162

  5. American Tragedy and the American Dream

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Eugene O’Neill I: The Living Tragedy

      • John Orr
      Pages 165-182

    3. Eugene O’Neill II: The Life Remembered

      • John Orr
      Pages 183-205

    4. Williams and Miller: the Cold War and the Renewal of Tragedy

      • John Orr
      Pages 206-240

    5. Sam Shepard: The Tragicomedy of the Active Victim

      • John Orr
      Pages 241-252

    6. Postscript: Absent Tragedy and the English Theatre

      • John Orr
      Pages 253-282

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 283-302
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A study that examines the relationship between tragic drama of the late 19th and 20th centuries and present-day society. The author's theories are presented with excerpts from relevant plays, such as "Look Back in Anger", "The Glass Menagerie", "The Iceman Cometh" and "Hedda Gabler".

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  • University of Edinburgh, UK

    John Orr

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