The vital lie : reality and illusion in modern drama /

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The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abbott, Anthony S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1989.
Temas:
1800-1999
Drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Drama > 19th century > History and criticism.
Reality in literature.
Illusion in literature.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Réalité dans la littérature.
Illusion dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Drama
Illusion in literature
Reality in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: The vital lie
  • Reality, illusion, and the more abundant life
  • pt. 1. The Hegelians: Henrik Ibsen
  • August Strindberg
  • Anton Chekhov
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • John Millington Synge
  • pt. 2. Lost and found: Luigi Pirandello
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
  • pt. 3. Absurdism and after: Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
  • Edward Albee
  • Harold Pinter
  • Theater as reality/reality as theater
  • Reality and the hero.

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