The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett.
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Electronic Book | UT Tyler Online Online | PR8789 .W6 2014 (Browse shelf) | http://uttyler.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1578025 | Available | EBL1578025 |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Towards Modernism: a New Theatrical Syntax; 2. The Syntax Achieved; 3. Maeterlinck; 4. Salomé and A Full Moon in March; 5. Synge; 6. Yeats, Maeterlinck and Synge; 7. Yeats's Drama of the Interior: a Technique for the Modern Theatre; 8. The Vitality of the Yeatsian Theatre; 9. O' Casey; 10. Beckett; Note on Editions; Select Book List; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
This study provides a European perspective on the drama of Yeats and of the Irish playwrights Wilde and Synge, O'Casey and Beckett who share in the achievement of creating a modern 'drama of the interior'. Professor Worth traces in particular the influence of Maeterlinck, examining his 'static drama' in some detail. A dominant theme is the importance of total theatre techniques to the playwrights of the interior from Wilde in Salomé to O'Casey in plays like Cock-a-Doodle Dandy. Yeats is seen as the great pioneer, assimilating inspiration from the French, with Arthur Symons as guide, from Syn
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