Century of Innovation A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870-1970

Name: Century of Innovation A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870-1970
Price: 115.94 USD
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ISBN: 9780205128785

ISBN-10: 0205128785

ISBN-13: 9780205128785

Edition: 2nd 1991

Authors: Oscar G. Brockett, Robert R. Findlay

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'Century of Innovation', now subtitled 'A History of European and American Theater and Drama Since the Late Nineteenth Century, ' is also inevitably a product of its time- a 'reading' of theatrical history in chiefly the twentieth century from the vantage point of the close of that century.

Book details

List price: $99.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Challenging the Status Quo


A New Drama and a New Theatre


The Independent Theatre Movement


Anti-Realism and the Modernist Temperament


Tradition and Assimilation


Forging a New Art of the Theatre


New Modes of Perception: Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism


The Interwar Years in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe


Italian, French, and Belgian Theatre and Drama Between the Wars


German and Austrian Theatre and Drama Between the Wars


British, Irish, and American Theatre and Drama Between the Wars


War, Recovery, Absurdity, and Anger


Toward Commitment: Theatre in the 1960's


Reshaping the Theatre: 1968 and Its Aftermath


Postmodernism, Deconstructionism and the 1980's