Top 10 Classics of Foreign Drama

Author: Sophocles (Ancient Greece) and others / Su Fuzhong selected and edited
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Publishing Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The main section of this anthology is the drama of eighteenth-century Europe. It includes French playwrights such as Molière, Beaumarchais, Corneille, and Racine; German authors like Schiller and Lessing; British writers such as Sheridan and Goldsmith; Italian Goldoni, and many others, forming a group of clear-minded and highly talented writers. The other major section of this anthology is the realism drama of the nineteenth century. Although Gogol's The Inspector General and Oscar Wilde's A Serious Proposal are comedies, their characters are ordinary, their lives are everyday, and the realistic elements are predominant. The representative figure of this period is Henrik Ibsen, whose plays are considered by critics and literary historians as the prelude to the rise of various theatrical movements in the twentieth century.