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The vital lie : reality and illusion in modern drama / / Anthony S. Abbott



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Autore: Abbott Anthony S Visualizza persona
Titolo: The vital lie : reality and illusion in modern drama / / Anthony S. Abbott Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1989
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages)
Disciplina: 809.2/04
809.204
Soggetto topico: Drama - 19th century - History and criticism
Drama - 20th century - History and criticism
Illusion in literature
Reality in literature
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-233) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The vital lie  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8253-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809025003321
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