The theater of protest and paradox : developments in the avant-garde drama, by George Wellwarth

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The theater of protest and paradox : developments in the avant-garde drama, by George Wellwarth

Title remainder

developments in the avant-garde drama

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by George Wellwarth

Instantiates

• The theater of protest and paradox : developments in the avant-garde drama

Publication

• New York, New York University Press, 1964

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages 297-305

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Contents

• The French-speaking drama: The sower of the avant-garde drama / Alfred Jarry -- The prophet of the avant-garde theater / Antonin Artaud -- The way out of the void / Arthur Adamov -- Life in the void / Samuel Beckett -- The absurd as warning / Eugene Ionesco -- The drama of the savage god / Jacques Audiberti -- The art of the one-act play / Jean Tardieu -- The theater of the grotesque / Michel de Ghelderode -- The theater of illusion and disillusion / Jean Genet -- The German-speaking drama: The sardonic view / Freidrich Durrenmatt -- The drama of despair / Max Frisch -- The drama within the self / Fritz Hochwalder -- The new English dramatists: the experimentalists: The comedy of allusiveness / Harold Pinter -- Parallel to logic / N.F. Simpson -- The new English dramatists: the traditionalists:"Angry young man"? / John Osborne -- "Awake and sing" in Whitechapel / Arnold Wesker -- The Jew as "Everyman" / Bernard Kops -- The angry young cocoon / Doris Lessing -- The drama of alienated youth / Shelagh Delaney -- The apotheosis of failure / John Mortimer -- The Irish primitive / Brendan Behan -- The return of intellectual satire / Nigel Dennis -- Too much too soon / John Arden -- Hope deferred: the new American drama: Edward Albee -- Jack Richardson -- Arthur Kopit -- Jack Gelber
• Alfred Jarry -- Antonin Artaud -- Arthur Adamov -- Samuel Beckett -- Eugene Ionesco -- Jacques Audiberti -- Jean Tardieu -- Michel de Ghelderode -- Jean Genet -- Friedrich Durrenmatt -- Max Frisch -- Fritz Hochwalder -- Harold Pinter -- N.F. Simpson -- John Osborne -- Arnold Wesker -- Bernard Kops -- Doris Lessing -- Shelagh Delaney -- John Mortimer -- Brendan Behan -- Nigel Dennis -- John ARden -- Edward Albee -- Jack Richardson -- Arthur Kopit -- Jack Gelber

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330010

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22 cm

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xv, 315 pages

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64016901

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• n

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.b17812884

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(WaOLN)824561