Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and why he has been rewritten, Ruby Cohn examines modern dramatic offshoots in English, French, and German. Surveying drama intended for the serious theater, the author discusses modern versions of Shakespeare's plays, especially Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. Although the focus is always on drama, contrast is supplied by fiction stemming from Hamlet and essays inspired by King Lear. The book concludes with an assessment of the influence of Shakespeare on the creative work of Shaw, Brecht, and Beckett. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Product Description: Ruby Cohn assumes realism to be the dominant mode in English theatre since 1956, the year of John Osbourne's Look Back in Anger. She argues, however, that the most provocative plays of the last few decades have departed from realism and she traces certain patterns of departure which are familiar in the long tradition of English drama...read more

Product Description: The notion of a contemporary cross-cultural exchange within the medium of theater is here imposed on a dozen contemporary Anglo-American dramatists: Alan Ayckbourn and Neil Simon, Edward Bond and Sam Shepard, David Mamet and Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill and Maria Irene Fornès, David Hare and David Rabe, Christopher Hampton and Richard Nelson...read more

Product Description: Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus...read more

Product Description: Original essays honoring Martin Esslin, author of a seminal book on the theater of the absurd

A critical analysis of the major trends in contemporary American theater examines the works of a wide range of playwrights, including Neil Simon, David Mamet, Sam Shephard, and Amiri Baraka

Looks at the tradition of theater in Paris, discusses plays first introduced there between 1944 and 1953, and examines the themes of nonrealistic theater

A critical analysis of the major trends in contemporary American theater examines the works of a wide range of playwrights, including Neil Simon, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, and Amiri Baraka

Previously unpublished articles on the life and literary evolution of the contemporary writer include contributions by Kay Boyle, Dougald McMillan, Ludovic Janvier, and Alec Reid

Product Description: Edward Albee - American Writers 77 was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

The tragedies of modern life are reflected in these French plays, each presented in Paris near the close of World War II

14 plays by major dramatists including Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Thorton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee