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The theatre in our times: a survey of the men, materials, and movements in the modern theatre
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Crown Publishers
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[1954]
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English
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From the Book
pt. 1. Perspectives of theatre
The "Underground Man" and the modern drama
Tragedy in the modern theatre: I. Tragic enlightenment
II. "Enlightenment" and modern drama
III. The subversion of enlightenment
IV. The degrees of drama
V. Postscript.
Aristotle in eclipse
Drama and detachment: a view of Brecht's style of theatre
Conservatism in theatre
Ibsen in the contemporary theatre
Henry Becque: The mordant virtuoso
Shaw as drama critic
Saint George and the dragons: I. Shaw at ninety
II. Epiphany
III. Anti-Shaw
Bernard Shaw and the Puritan in Hell
When Shaw boiled the pot
Strindberg and the twentieth century
Strindberg: 1950 centenary productions
The annihilators: I. "The machine"
II. Cocteau and "The infernal machine"
Pirandelo and the "Six characters"
The rebuilders: I. Alternatives for drama
II. Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw
III. The "histrionic" art of Andre Obey
IV: John Millington Synge: synthesis in folk drama
V. Federico Garcia Lorca
VI. Yeats: the limits of drama
VII. Maxwell Anderson: the poet in show business
The prodigality of Sean O'Casey
O'Neill in our time
The Electras of Giraudoux and O'Neill
T. S. Eliot: the poet as anti-modernist
Schism in English theatre.
pt. 2. The signature of the times
Saroyan: The time of your life
Clifford Odets: the long journey of a talent
Playwright in transition: Robert Emmet Sherwood, 1941
Philip Barry: a civilized playwright
S. N. Behrman: comedy and tolerance
Sartre and Poscator: The flies
New American playwrights: Williams, Miller, and others
A Streetcar Named Desire: a study in ambiguity: I. An evaluation
II. "Spines" for drama
III. Play review
Death of a Salesman: first impressions, 1949
The great world, the little stage
Mordancy in the drama
The Dublin Gate Theatre
The Habimah Theatre: I. The Habimah's Dybbuk
II. The Golem
III. The Habimah and Sophocles
Theatricalism and realism
English theatre: 1947-1952: I. British post-war liberalism
II. English comic style
III. Matter and manner
IV. English morality drama
V. The gloss of English stage production
VI. From West End to Broadway
Fabianism and the British playwright
Golden Boy and the mid-century mode
The uses of exuberance
Illumination by Roman Candle
Two war-time and post-war periods.
pt. 3. The incubi of our stage
The fallacy of unity
Emotion comes cheap
The playwright and the camera
The need for finesse
The dangers of the history play
The most difficult form of writing
Outside, looking in
Experimental theatre
Arena theatre
The lost theatre: our unused drama
Let the reviewer beware, or, How to kill a play: I. the risk of revival
II. The Bergner duchess of Malfi, 1946
III. The Playboy of the Western World, 1946
IV. Find the spine
V. The Gertrude Lawrence Pygmalion
VI. The risks remain for even Shakespeare and Shaw
An American national theatre
From reviewer to producer.
pt. 4. Film perspectives
Expressionism and realism in films
The Time of Your Life as a film
The Informer as a screenplay
Screenwriting as playwriting.
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