| Description |
x, 229 pages ; 22 cm |
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1. Making of the contemporary theatre: New form in the theatre -- Naturalism in perspective -- Ibsen: A enemy of the people ; Hedda Gabler ; Master builder -- Pirandello: master of the naked masks -- 2. Some contemporary dramatists: Brecht in 1969 -- Brecht and the English theatre -- "The neurosis of the neutrals": Max Frisch ; Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- Ionesco and the creative dilemma -- "Truth" and documentation" a conversation with Rolf Hochhuth -- A Czech absurdist: Vaclav Havel -- Günter Grass the dramatist -- Peter Weiss: dramatist beyond Brecht and Beckett -- 3. Future of the theatre: Violence in modern drama -- Nudity: barely the beginning? -- Theatre of the absurd reconsidered -- Epic theatre, the absurd, and the future -- Happening -- Role of the theatre. |
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Drama. |
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20th century |
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Theater -- History -- 20th century.
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Theater. |
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History. |
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