Tragic drama and modern society : a sociology of dramatic form from 1880 to the present

A study that examines the relationship between tragic drama of the late 19th and 20th centuries and present-day society. The author's theories are presented with excerpts from relevant plays, such as "Look Back in Anger", "The Glass Menagerie", "The Iceman Cometh" and "Hedda Gabler". Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Ibsen’s Norway....Pages 3-14 Wilderness against Civilisation....Pages 15-22 The Noble against the Bourgeois/Women against Marriage....Pages 23-42 The Synthesis: John Gabriel Borkman....Pages 43-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 The Everyday and the Transient in Chekhov’s Tragedy....Pages 57-83 Germany’s Political Theatre: The Rise and Fall of Historical Tragedy....Pages 84-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Tragic Nobility and National Awakening....Pages 119-142 Sean O’Casey: The Shadow of a City....Pages 143-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Eugene O’Neill I: The Living Tragedy....Pages 165-182 Eugene O’Neill II: The Life Remembered....Pages 183-205 Williams and Miller: the Cold War and the Renewal of Tragedy....Pages 206-240 Sam Shepard: The Tragicomedy of the Active Victim....Pages 241-252 Postscript: Absent Tragedy and the English Theatre....Pages 253-282 Back Matter....Pages 283-302 John Orr. Previous Ed.: 1981. Includes Bibliography And Index.