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The Theatre of Revolt: Studies in modern drama from Ibsen to Genet: An Approach to Modern Drama Reissue Edition
Author(s): Robert Brustein (Author)
- Publisher: Ivan R Dee
- Publication Date: 1 Feb. 1991
- Edition: Reissue
- Language: English
- Print length: 452 pages
- ISBN-10: 0929587537
- ISBN-13: 9780929587530
Book Description
Focusing on Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O’Neill, and Genet, Mr. Brustein uncovers the roots of the modern theatre in the soil of the rebellion they cultivated. One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater. New York Times
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Provocative, persuasive, and eminently readable.” —Saturday Review
“The best single collection of essays I know on modern drama…remarkably fine and sensitive pieces of criticism.” –Alvin Kernan, Yale Review
“One of the standard and decisive books on the modern theater.” —The New York Times
About the Author
Robert Brustein, theatre critic for the New Republic and is the author of Cultural Calisthenics, Dumbocracy in America, The Siege of the Arts, and Reimagining American Theatre. He is also founder and artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University.
