Description
Modern Verse Drama
The Critical Idiom Reissued Series
Author: Hinchliffe Arnold P.
Language: EnglishKeywords
Verse Drama; Modern Verse Drama; rupert; Holds; doone; Young Man; murder; Rupert Doone; cathedral; Poetic Drama; william; Coterie Theatre; archer; Christopher Fry; worsley; Countess; dramatists; Commercial Theatre; denis; Birthday; donoghue; Fugitive; Eliot's plays; Odd; language of the audience; Verse Line; Fry's plays; Verse; Act III; Confidential Clerk; CEMA; Good Life; Eliot’s Plays; Spiritual Portentousness; Absurd Drama; Francis Steegmuller; Ellida
Publication date: 07-2017
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 01-2019
· 12.9x19.8 cm · Paperback
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First published in 1977, this book provides a clear and well-illustrated analysis of modern verse drama. It studies the work of its chief exponents, T. S. Eliot and Christopher Fry, as well as the genre?s place in the development of modern theatre. It particular focuses on the effect that verse drama has had on an audience?s awareness of language in the theatre, paving the way for dramatists like Pinter, Beckett and Wesker.
This book will be of particular interest to those studying modern poetry and drama.
General Editor’s Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Modern Verse Drama 2. Poets in the Theatre 3. Religious Verse Drama 4. T. S. Eliot 5. Christopher Fry 6. Poets of the Theatre 7. Poetic Drama; Bibliography; Index