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xii, 493 pages 24 cm, \"Act-by-act summaries of 133 representative dramas by modern playwrights.\"--Jacket, Introduction by Evert Sprinchorn: the decline and disappearance of plot -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee -- Winterset / Maxwell Anderson -- Antigone; Becket, or The honor of God; Ornifle; Thieves' carnival; The waltz of the Toreadors / Jean Anouilh -- The ascent of F6 / W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood -- Quoat-Quoat / Jacques Audiberti -- The admirable Crichton; Dear Brutus; Peter Pan; What every woman knows / J.M. Barrie -- Hotel universe / Philip Barry -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The hostage / Brendan Behan -- End of summer / S.N. Behrman -- The Queen and the rebels / Ugo Betti -- Baal; The caucasian chalk circle; Galileo; The good woman of Setzuan; Mother Courage and her children; The threepenny opera / Bertolt Brecht -- R.U.R. / Karel Čapek -- The insect comedy / Karel and Josef Čapek -- Break of noon; The satin slipper; The tidings brought to Mary / Paul Claudel -- The infernal machine; Orpheus / Jean Cocteau -- Blithe spirit / Noel Coward -- him / E.E. Cummings -- The physicist; The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- Murder in the cathedr

Author

Sprinchorn, Evert, editor

Publisher

New York, T.Y. Crowell Co

Published

1966

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Medical, Humanities