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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd
Authors and Contributors      Edited by John L. Styan
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:238
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 139
Category/GenreDrama
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
ISBN/Barcode 9780521296298
ClassificationsDewey:809.2
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 9 June 1983
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Lugne-Poe's Theatre de Le'Oeuvre. Jarry is seen as the precursor of surrealism; later symbolist elements are found in the plays of Claudel, Giraudoux, Yeats, Eliot, Lorca and Pirandello. Artaud's theatre of cruelty is related to the work of Peter Brook. The theatre of the absurd is illustrated in Sartre, Beckett, Pinter and Ionesco. Recent avant-garde theatre in America and Britain also reveals elements of symbolism.