Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational

Professor States provides nothing less than a new theory of the drama based upon the principles of irony and dialectic. Very close in approach to the Continenta

Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experie

Issue covers ; Romanticism, Vaudeville, Farce, Realism. Playwrights considered ; Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Goethe, Kleist, Pirandello, Brecht and Genet.