Product Description

This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s. Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #628432 in Books
• Published on: 1998-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 985 pages

From the Back Cover
This comprehensive and balanced anthology offers a collection of 25 works of modern and contemporary drama from the 1870s through the early 1990s. Features twenty-five plays that often demonstrate a significant breakthrough in maturity of expression and style for each playwright — important leaders in the development of modern and contemporary drama.

Customer Reviews

Good, but odd selection
A good collection, but why O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms rather than one of the big three (Iceman, Moon, Long Day's)? Why All My Sons by Miller rather than Death or Crucible? Why Glaspell's Verge at all, when Inge and Rice, much better playwrights, are left out entirely?

A Complete Selection!
This book is essencial to anyone who is willing to start studies on modern drama. It brings a wonderful selection of 25 plays, from Ibsen's "A Doll's House" (1879) to Wasserstein's "The Sisters Rosenweig" (1992), and featuring other authors such as Wilde, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht and Ionesco. It also includes a second part of critical essays by the main drama authors and critics from the XX century.