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Replay : classic modern drama reimagined /

"Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist. Starting with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital rela...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zinman, Toby Silverman, 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015.
Subjects:
Drama > Adaptations > History and criticism.
Theater and society.
Stage adaptations > History and criticism.
Literature > Adaptations > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue / Georg Bücher
  • Woyzeck
  • Henrik Ibsen
  • A doll's house
  • Hedda Gabler
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Pygmalion
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Mother Courage and her children
  • Harley Granville Barker
  • The Voysey inheritance
  • Farewell to the theatre
  • Terence Rattigan
  • The Winslow boy
  • The Browning version
  • The sleeping prince
  • Arthur Miller
  • Death of a salesman
  • Lorraine Hansberry
  • A raisin in the sun
  • August Strindberg
  • Miss Julie
  • The dance of death
  • Oscar Wilde
  • The importance of being Earnest
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Uncle Vanya
  • The three sisters
  • Composite Chekhov
  • Thornton Wilder
  • Our town
  • Tennessee Williams
  • A streetcar named Desire
  • Eugene Ionesco
  • The chairs
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Waiting for Godot.