Author:
Gassner, John, 1903-1967.
Edition Statement:[1st ed.]
Imprint:New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.
Description327 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Script or spotlight? - Playwriting at the crossroads. - What price exaltation? - Reasons for social drama. - New tragic perspectives? - Eugene O'Neill: the course of a major dramatist. - Tennessee Williams: 1940-60. - Jean Giraudoux as virtuoso. - Foundation or no foundation. - The practicality of impractical criticism. - Off-Broadway, past and present. - Entrophy? - The Country Girl: odets in the fifties. - Barry and Sherwood: Second Threshold. - Lillian Hellman: The Autumn Garden. - Allegory: Coxe and Chapman's Billy Budd. - Kingsley;s Darkness at Noon and political drama. - Van Druten's I am a Camera and the Chekhov myth. - Marquand and Osborn: Point of No Return. - The Grass Harp: Capote versus Saroyan. - The Cave Dwellers: Saroyan's return. - The Flowering Peach: odets, yea-and-nay. - Religion and Graham Green's The Potting Shed. - Low tragedy in Macken's Home Is the Hero. - Gazzo's A Hatful of Rain: the real and the grotesque. - Clinic and symbol in Wishengrad's The Rope Dancers. - Laurents: A Clearing in the Woods. - Faulkner: Requiem for a Nun. - William Inge and the subtragic muse: The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. - John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. - Epitaph for George Dillon and The Entertainer. - Too Late the Phalarope: alternatives in social drama. - Nash: A Handful of Fire. - American Shakespeare: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Merchant of Venice. - Producing Miss Julie and Uncle Vanya. - Reviving Turgenev's A Month in the Country. - The Doctor's Dilemma and Saint Joan: Shaw half-revived. - American musical comedy. - Menasha Skulnik in The Fifth Season. - Aymé's Clèrambard. - The lesson of the Comédie Française. - Two for the Seesaw and The Seesaw Log. - Summer and Smoke: Williams' shadow and substance. - Williams' descent: Orpheus Descending. - Williams' "Garden". - Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. - The Iceman Cometh intact. - A moon for the Misbegotten. - Long Day's Journey into Night. - A Touch of the Poet. - Tyrone Guthrie's or Pirandello's Six Characters. - Harlequinade in Anouilh's Mademoiselle Colombe. - Anouilh's The Lark: the theatricalist Joan. - The Waltz of the Toreadors: Anouilh's Valse Triste. - Beckett: Waiting for Godot. - Beckett's Endgame and symbolism. - Ionesco: The Lesson and The Chairs. - Brecht's epic parable: The Good Woman of Setzuan at the Phoenix. - Duerrenmatt: The Visit. - Miller's The Crucible as event and play. - Corwin's The Rivalry. - Mary Stuart at the Phoenix: a future for poetic drama? - Fry: The Firstborn. - O'Casey: Pictures in the Hallway. - More "readings": O'Casey and Dylan Thomas. - Robert Anderson: All Summer Long and Tea and Sympathy. - Dramatizing fiction: Look Homeward, Angel. - Ulysses in Nighttown: Mostel at the rooftop. - MacLeish's J.B.: Yale and Broadway. - And these others.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographies.
