Covering major playwrights including Ibsen, Brecht and Chekhov, William Storm presents a comprehensive investigation of irony's significance in the modern theatre.
Covering major playwrights including Ibsen, Brecht and Chekhov, William Storm presents a comprehensive investigation of irony's significance in the modern theatre.
William Storm teaches dramatic literature, theory and theatre history at New Mexico State University. He is the author of After Dionysus: A Theory of the Tragic as well as numerous essays, articles and plays. His scholarly specializations include dramatic theory and dramaturgy, the history and theory of the tragic form and sensibility, art in relation to literature and performance, and connections of science with theatre and narrative studies.
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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 Works cited.
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 Works cited.
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