02877nam 2200613Ia 450 991080902500332120230719184626.00-8173-8253-4(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)99100000000077489519870911h19891989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe vital lie reality and illusion in modern drama /Anthony S. AbbottTuscaloosa :University of Alabama Press,1989.©19891 online resource (xiv, 239 pages)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; IndexThe 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.Drama19th centuryHistory and criticismDrama20th centuryHistory and criticismIllusion in literatureReality in literatureDramaHistory and criticism.DramaHistory and criticism.Illusion in literature.Reality in literature.809.2/04809.204Abbott Anthony S1713786MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809025003321The vital lie4107042UNINA