| Description |
xiv, 896 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published in 1981. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Clurman -- The caucasian chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- The balcony / Jean Genet -- The birthday party / Harold Pinter -- Rhinoceros / Eugène Ionesco -- Tango / Slawomir Mrozek -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- American buffalo / David Mamet. |
| Summary |
This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theater. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us a portrait of the progress and turmoil of the twentieth century. |
| Subject |
Drama -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980.
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| Cover Title |
Nine plays of the modern theatre |
| ISBN |
0802150322 |
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