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Nine plays of the modern theater / with an introduction by Harold Clurman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.?] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [1990?], c1981.Description: xiv, 896 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0802150322
  • 9780802150325
Other title:
  • Nine plays of the modern theatre [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.8204 N6222 1990
LOC classification:
  • PN6112 .N56
Contents:
Introduction / Harold Clurman -- The caucasian chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- The balcony / Jean Genet -- The birthday party / Harold Pinter -- Rhinoceros / Eugène Ionesco -- Tango / Slawomir Mrozek -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- American buffalo / David Mamet.
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.
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Originally published in 1981.

Introduction / Harold Clurman -- The caucasian chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- The balcony / Jean Genet -- The birthday party / Harold Pinter -- Rhinoceros / Eugène Ionesco -- Tango / Slawomir Mrozek -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- American buffalo / David Mamet.

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.

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