In this book Darko Suvin discerns the shape of an emerging post-Individualist drama which may be to our age what the theatre of Shakespeare and Ibsen was to theirs. Suvin establishes the principles of composition of a crucial group of modern plays.He examines some major attempts and failures to replace Ibsen's "Individualist" theatre with this new "Collectivist" drama. Two particularly important and original contributions to the subject are Suvin's chapters on the Happenings in the USA and on the Paris Commune Theatre Law. The book focuses on the work of Brecht, both because of the importance of his plays and because of what Professor Suvin sees as Brecht's central position today in any cultural critique that refuses to despair.

To Brecht and Beyond : Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy (Harvester / Barnes & Noble Studies in Contemporary Literature and Culture, 6)

Politics & Social Sciences

Suvin, Darko

Social Sciences

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To Brecht and Beyond : Soundings in Modern Dramaturgy (Harvester / Barnes & Noble Studies in Contemporary Literature and Culture, 6)