Irony and the modern theatre /

• Main Author: Storm, William, 1949- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Series: Cambridge studies in modern theatre
• Subjects: Ειρωνεία στη λογοτεχνία > Λογοτεχνία; Δράμα > Ιστορία και κριτική; Δράμα > Ψυχολογικές απόψεις.

"Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especial...

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Introduction
• 1. Irony personified: Ibsen and The Master Builder
• 2. The character of irony in Chekhov
• 3. Irony and dialectic: Shaw's Candida
• 4. Pirandello's 'father' - and Brecht's 'mother'
• 5. Absurdist irony: Ionesco's 'anti-play'
• 6. 'Ironist first-class': Stoppard's Arcadia
• 7. American ironies: Wasserstein and Kushner
• 8. Irony's theatre.