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Francis Fergusson

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Description:Francis Fergusson, for many years head of the Drama Department at Bennington College and later director of the Princeton seminars in literary criticism, investigates the idea of a theater by examining ten plays: four classics of dramatic literature - Sophocles' Oedipus Rec, Racine's Berenice, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. Then he considers three modern versions of the art of the drama: the realism of Ibsen and Chekhov in Ghosts and The Cherry Orchard; the works of Shaw and Pirandello with special reference to Six Characters in Search of an Author and contemporary attempts to create a modern poetic drama in Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, Obey's Noah, and Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective (Princeton Legacy Library). To get started finding The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective (Princeton Legacy Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Francis Fergusson, for many years head of the Drama Department at Bennington College and later director of the Princeton seminars in literary criticism, investigates the idea of a theater by examining ten plays: four classics of dramatic literature - Sophocles' Oedipus Rec, Racine's Berenice, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. Then he considers three modern versions of the art of the drama: the realism of Ibsen and Chekhov in Ghosts and The Cherry Orchard; the works of Shaw and Pirandello with special reference to Six Characters in Search of an Author and contemporary attempts to create a modern poetic drama in Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, Obey's Noah, and Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective (Princeton Legacy Library). To get started finding The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays, The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective (Princeton Legacy Library), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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