Author:
Reiter, Seymour.
Imprint:New York : Horizon Press [1973]
Description259 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:The play: about whom? About what? A modern test case. Anouilh's Becket. - The play: about whom? About what? A classical test case. Sophocles' Philoctetes. - The nature of action in a play. Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Racine's Phaedra. - Structure and texture. - Japanese drama. Noh and Kabuki plays. - Chinese drama. The Ming tradition. - Sanskrit drama. Three classics and Wilder's Our Town. - A true plotless play. Carroll's Trumpets of the Lord. - So-called "plotless" plays. Euripides' The Trojan Women. - The trilogy as a dramatic form. Aeschylus' Oresteia; Kuan Han-ching's Snow in Midsummer. - Shakespearan structures. Henry IV, Part One; Twelfth Night; Macbeth. - The medieval achievement. The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Pageant; the Brome Sacrifice of Isaac; the Hegge The Women Taken in Adultery; the York Creation though The Fall of Man and others. - Play Premises and audience response. Calderón's The Surgeon of His Honour; Chikamatsu's The Love Suicides at Amijima. - Modern Drama. Submerged structure in Strindberg's A Dream Play; O'Neill's The Hairy Ape; Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard; O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars; Zeami's Kiyotsune; Gorki's The Lower Depths; Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna. - Contemporary drama. Submerged structure in Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 235-242.
