Twentieth-century European Drama

Download or read book Twentieth-century European Drama written by Brian Docherty and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, contemporary German theatre, and Dario Fo and Franca Rame. These essays combine contemporary theory with a discussion of the dramatic work and theories of theatre and drama of the playwrights who created modern drama in Europe. The essays are all new and have been specially written for the book by leading academics.