03012nam 2200625Ia 450 991045501580332120200520144314.00-8173-8253-4(CKB)1000000000774895(EBL)454500(OCoLC)424520962(SSID)ssj0000268139(PQKBManifestationID)11218101(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268139(PQKBWorkID)10213204(PQKB)11306550(MiAaPQ)EBC454500(MdBmJHUP)muse8691(Au-PeEL)EBL454500(CaPaEBR)ebr10309811(EXLCZ)99100000000077489519870911d1989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe vital lie[electronic resource] reality and illusion in modern drama /Anthony S. AbbottTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc19891 online resource (258 p.)Includes index.0-8173-1202-1 0-8173-0396-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-233) and index.Contents; Preface: The Vital Lie; 1. Reality, Illusion, and the More Abundant Life; Part One: The Hegelians; 2. Henrik Ibsen; 3. August Strindberg; 4. Anton Chekhov; 5. George Bernard Shaw; 6. John Millington Synge; Part Two: Lost and Found; 7. Luigi Pirandello; 8. Bertolt Brecht; 9. T. S. Eliot; 10. Eugene O'Neill; 11. Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; Part Three: Absurdism and After; 12. Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco; 13. Edward Albee; 14. Harold Pinter; 15. Theater as Reality/Reality as Theater; 16. Reality and the Hero; Notes; Bibliography; Permissions; Index The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without thDrama19th centuryHistory and criticismDrama20th centuryHistory and criticismIllusion in literatureReality in literatureElectronic books.DramaHistory and criticism.DramaHistory and criticism.Illusion in literature.Reality in literature.809.2/04809.204Abbott Anthony S1029185MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455015803321The vital lie2445458UNINA