What is generally referred to as modern drama was an international
development or movement centred in Western Europe and North
America, a movement directed against many of the conventions and
institutions of nineteenth-century drama and theatre. Between 1880
and 1960, a number of foundational figures broke with inherited
dramatic conventions, instituted new forms of drama, and created
different venues for performance. George Bernard Shaw and William
Archer in England, Henrik Ibsen in Norway, August Strindberg in
Sweden, Maurice Maeterlinck and Alfred Jarry in France, Gerhard
Hauptmann in Germany, Luigi Pirandello in Italy, Federico Garcia
Lorca in Spain, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein in the United
States, and Anton Chekhov in Russia share, despite their
considerable differences, a project of rupturing with the old and a
belief in the new. Even though each national drama tradition can
boast such a foundational figure, modern drama was at the same time
an international movement. New plays quickly circulated through
translation and new production techniques through touring companies
and extended visits, establishing an international standard for
modernism in drama.
The four volumes that make up this new Routledge Major Work span
the historical emergence and the continuing impact of modern drama
on critical thought. By focusing on the origins of modern drama as
well as on the narrative of its development, the collection is
uniquely positioned to relate this historical period to current
critical traditions. In terms of organization, the Major Work takes
stock of the various critical traditions that have developed since
the 1960s and that have fundamentally transformed ourunderstanding
of modernist drama and theatre even as these traditions have
continued to draw on the original impulses of modern dramatists. It
is an essential reference work destined to be valued as a vital
research resource by all scholars and students of the subject.
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