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Avant garde drama: A casebook (Crowell Casebooks)

Daniel Charles Gerould

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 591

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell

Release: May 12, 1976

ISBN: 0690008481

ISBN 13: 9780690008487

Avant garde drama: A casebook (Crowell Casebooks)

Daniel Charles Gerould

4.5/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 591

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell

Release: May 12, 1976

ISBN: 0690008481

ISBN 13: 9780690008487

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