| Edition |
Third revised and enlarged edition. |
| Description |
xxi, 890 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 805-840. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Primitive portrait: The first dramatist -- pt. 2. The classic masters: Aeschylus -"the father of tragedy" -- Sophocles, the serene -- Euripides, the modern -- Aristophanes, the poet of laughter -- Menander, Plautus, and Terence -- pt. 3. East and West: The playwrights of the Near East -- The playwrights of the Far East -- pt. 4. The medieval communion: Playwrights of the church and the guild -- pt. 5. The theatre of self-assertion: The journeymen of the Renaissance -- Lope de Vega and Calderon -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Ben Jonson and the "noble brood" -- pt. 6. The polite playwrights: Corneille and Racine: polite tragedy -- Moliere and the comedy of society -- pt. 7. The "modern" drama: Goethe and the romantic spirit -- Romanticism over Europe -- Ibsen, the Viking of the drama -- The Scandinavian succession and Strindberg -- The journey men of the French succession -- Latin postscripts -Benavente and Pirandello -- Gerhart Hauptmann and the modern naturalism -- Hauptmann's fellow-travelers and the expressionist eruption -- Chekhov and the Russian realists -- Maxim Gorky and the Soviet drama -- John Millington Synge and the Irish muse -- Bernard Shaw and the British compromise -- Eugene O'Neill and the American scene -- The American galaxy -- Midcentury theatre and drama -- Midcentury summary. |
| Subject |
Drama -- History and criticism.
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Dramatists.
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