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Theory of the Modern Drama is a brilliant analysis of the emergence and development of modern drama from the Renaissance to the present day. Szondi shows how the rise of modern drama was linked to broader social processes and expressed some of the beliefs characteristic of early modern Europe. This was manifested in the convention that form was ahistorical and it simply required the appropriate subject matter to do justice to the form. But in the late nineteenth century the form of drama began to change, giving rise to the new types of drama characteristic of the twentieth century. Szondi offers a highly original interpretation of this transformation, linking it with the emergence of an epic form which emphasizes the isolation of the individual.

This concise but wide-ranging book discusses the work of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Sartre, Brecht and Wilder, among others. It will be essential reading for students of drama, modern languages and literature, and contemporary literary theory.

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CONTENTS

Cover

Front Matter

Foreword: On the Difference between a Mimetic and a Semiotic Theory of the Modern Drama

Notes

Translator’s Preface

Part One

Introduction: Historical Aesthetics and Genre-Based Poetics

Notes

I. The Drama

Notes

II. The Drama in Crisis

1. Ibsen

2. Chekhov

3. Strindberg

4. Maeterlinck

5. Hauptmann

Notes

Part Two

Transition: A Theory of Stylistic Change

Notes

III. Rescue Attempts

6. Naturalism

7. The Conversation Play

8. The One-Act Play

9. Constraint and Existentialism

Notes

IV. Tentative Solutions

10. I Dramaturgy: Expressionism

11. The Political Revue: Piscator

12. Epic Theater: Brecht

13. Montage: Bruckner

14. Enacting the Impossibility of the Drama: Pirandello

15. Monologue Intérieur: O’Neill

16. The Epic I as Stage Manager: Wilder

17. The Play of Time: Wilder

18. Memory: Miller

Notes

In Lieu of an Afterword

For the 1963 Edition

Textual Variants

Editor’s Notes and Commentary

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

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Theory of the Modern Drama

A Critical Edition

Peter Szondi

Edited and Translated by Michael Hays

Foreword by Jochen Schulte-Sasse

Polity Press, Cambridge

Originally published in German as Theorie des modernen Dramas © Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 1956. All rights reserved by and controlled through Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin

English translation and Foreword © 1987 by the University of Minnesota

An earlier version of Part One, edited and translated by Michael Hays, appeared in Boundary 2 11, no. 3 (Spring 1983)

First published in the United Kingdom, 1987, by Polity Press, Cambridge, in association with Basil Blackwell, Oxford

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All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4559-9

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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