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

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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd - Styan, John L (Editor), and John L, Styan (Editor)
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This book was first published in 1981. 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 Lugn???-Poe's Th???atre 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 ...

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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd 1983, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521296298

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Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Volume 2, Symbolism, Surrealism and the Absurd 1981, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521227384

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