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The Theatre of Revolt - An Approach to Modern Drama (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R422
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The Theatre of Revolt - An Approach to Modern Drama (Paperback, New edition): Robert Brustein

The Theatre of Revolt - An Approach to Modern Drama (Paperback, New edition)

Robert Brustein

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When Nietzsche announced the death of God, he lowered the boom on all traditional values, and thus began the modern tradition of revolt. Or so Professor Brustein reads cultural history in his programmatic "approach to the modern drama." His choice of exemplary playwrights may seem at first glance an odd mesh, and his omissions may appear scandalous (why not Montherlant, Beckett, Ionesco?). But given the formulae (three fundamental and usually overlapping categories: the messianic, social, existential) and accepting the fashionable canons (the conflict between the real and the ideal, the self and the Other, la bete huamine and man-become-God), the essays are ??liant, and sometimes superlatively successful, attempt so bring to the drama the kind of close reading the New Critics have given to the novel and poetry. Alas, Brustein is, as they say in the theatre, always "on," working up so much steam that the discussion of his philosophical, essentially apolitical, and bourgeois-biffing rebels tends to be fogged-out every so often. Still, the Shaw and Strindberg are brilliantly done, especially as psychological portraits, and those on Ibsen, Chekhov and Pirandello bright enough. The O'Neill's a bore, the Brecht respectable, and with Genet, Brustein goes flying blind quite frequently, albeit excitingly. The book, which presupposes a deep acquaintance with the plays, is a landmark of sorts, and its attention-demanding air certainly won't have it collecting dust on the shelf. (Kirkus Reviews)
In a new edition of this now-classic work, Robert Brustein argues that the roots of the modern theatre may be found in the soil of rebellion cultivated by eight outstanding playwrights: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O'Neill, and Genet. Focusing on each of them in turn, Mr. Brustein considers the nature of their revolt, the methods employed in their plays, their influences on the modern drama, and the playwrights themselves. "One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater.... It shows us the men behind the works,... what they wanted to write about and the private hell within each of them which led to the enduring works we continue to treasure."-New York Times Book Review. "The best single collection of essays I know of on modern drama... remarkably fine and sensitive pieces of criticism. "-Alvin,Kernan, Yale Review.

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Imprint: Ivan R. Dee
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 1991
First published: February 1991
Authors: Robert Brustein
Dimensions: 214 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 452
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-929587-53-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
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LSN: 0-929587-53-7
Barcode: 9780929587530

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