Originally published under title: Avant-garde drama : major plays and documents post World War I. Covers the interwar period from 1918 to 1939.
Contents:
Plays. The water hen / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz --
Man and the masses / Ernst Toller --
Saint Joan of the stockyards / Bertolt Brecht --
The conspiracy of feelings / Yurii Olyesha --
Each in his own way / Luigi Pirandello --
Him / E.E. Cummings --
Chronicles of hell / Michel de Ghelderode --
Documents. Theoretical introduction to Tumor Brainard ; The analogy with painting / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz --
Masse-Mensch--
mob-man / Kenneth Macgowan and Robert Edmond Jones --
A short organum for the theatre / Bertolt Brecht --
The author about his play ; Notes of a dramatist ; Alternate ending to the Conspiracy of feelings / Yurii Olyesha --
Directing Pirandello today / Luigi Squarzina interviewed by Gino Rizzo --
Notes for each in his own way / Luigi Squarzina --
First surrealist manifesto / André Breton --
The surrealist revolution / J.-A. Boiffard, P. Eluard, and R. Vitrac --
No more masterpieces / Antonin Artaud.
Originally published under title: Avant-garde drama : major plays and documents post World War I. Covers the interwar period from 1918 to 1939.
Contents:
Plays. The water hen / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz --
Man and the masses / Ernst Toller --
Saint Joan of the stockyards / Bertolt Brecht --
The conspiracy of feelings / Yurii Olyesha --
Each in his own way / Luigi Pirandello --
Him / E.E. Cummings --
Chronicles of hell / Michel de Ghelderode --
Documents. Theoretical introduction to Tumor Brainard ; The analogy with painting / Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz --
Masse-Mensch--
mob-man / Kenneth Macgowan and Robert Edmond Jones --
A short organum for the theatre / Bertolt Brecht --
The author about his play ; Notes of a dramatist ; Alternate ending to the Conspiracy of feelings / Yurii Olyesha --
Directing Pirandello today / Luigi Squarzina interviewed by Gino Rizzo --
Notes for each in his own way / Luigi Squarzina --
First surrealist manifesto / André Breton --
The surrealist revolution / J.-A. Boiffard, P. Eluard, and R. Vitrac --
No more masterpieces / Antonin Artaud.