Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre [Hardcover]

Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This study, the first in over a decade, traces the development of Maeterlinck's dramatic vision of extraordinary originality and depth.

Introduction
Symbolist Beginnings
La Princesse Maleineand Symbolist Theatre
Maeterlinck, Mallarm??, and Symbolist Dramatic Theory
Theatre and the Invisible Principle:Pell??as and M??lisande
Using the Stage: the One-act Plays
The Fecund Interval: 'Le Tragique quotidien'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index