The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett [Hardcover]

This study provides a European perspective on the drama of Yeats and of the Irish playwrights  Wilde and Synge, O'Casey and Beckett  who share in the achievement of creating a modern drama of the interior'. Professor Worth traces in particular the influence of Maeterlinck, examining his static drama' in some detail. A dominant theme is the importance of total theatre techniques to the playwrights of the interior from Wilde inSalom?to O'Casey in plays likeCock-a-Doodle Dandy. Yeats is seen as the great pioneer, assimilating inspiration from the French, with Arthur Symons as guide, from Synge, from Gordon Craig and from the No drama, and evolving a modern technique for a drama of complex self-consciousness.

Introduction
1. Towards Modernism: a New Theatrical Syntax
2. The Syntax Achieved
3. Maeterlinck
4.Salom?andA Full Moon in March
5. Singe
6. Yeats, Maeterlinck and Synge
7. Yeats's Drama of the Interior: a Technique for the Modern Theatre
8. The Vitality of the Yeatsian Theatre
9. O'Casey
10. Beckett
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Index

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