Theory of the Modern Drama
by Peter Szondi
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Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic of early modern Europe. This was manifested in the convention that form was ahistorical and it simply required the appropriate subject matter to do justice to the form. But in the late nineteenth century the form of drama show more began to change, giving rise to the new types of drama characteristic of the twentieth century. Szondi offers a highly original interpretation of this transformation, linking it with the emergence of an epic form which emphasizes the isolation of the individual. This concise but wide-ranging book discusses the work of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Sartre, Brecht and Wilder, among others. It will be essential reading for students of drama, modern languages and literature, and contemporary literary theory. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Theory of the Modern Drama
- Original title
- Theorie des modernen dramas
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 809.2 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Drama
- LCC
- PN1851 .S9513 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama History
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