Nine Plays of the Modern Theater / with an Introduction by Harold Clurman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clurman, Harold, 1901-1980.

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama--20th century.

Drama.

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 896 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First Evergreen edition].

Other Title:

9 plays of the modern theater

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [1981]

Summary:

This comprehensive volume contains nine of the most important, most indispensable plays of the modern theater. What Harold Clurman has done in this seminal collection is to create for us a portrait of the progress and turmoil of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Introduction / by Harold Clurman

Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Visit

Jean Genet: The Balcony

Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

Eugène Ionesco: Rhinoceros

Slawomir Mrozek: Tango

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

David Mamet: American Buffalo.

Notes:

"First Evergreen Edition 1981."

"The nine plays, cinluded in this volume are not only modern by date - 1944 to 1975 - but in their dramatization ... What, in any case, is incontrovertible is that they are among the most representative plays of our era."--Introduction.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

ISBN:

0802150322

OCLC:

5170180