Adversarial Games (A Hundred Years of World Avant-Garde Drama Handbook)

Author: Zhou Jianglin
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The sword of the knights fell solely on the actress's pink shoulder. England not only gave birth to extraordinary playwrights but also produced some great theater theorists and directors. Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Existentialism, Epic (Narrative) Drama, Absurd Drama, and other influential artistic movements all originated in France, emerging from Paris or flourishing there. Drama is a reflection of reality, and over the centuries, the stage has undergone as many dramatic changes as the real world, appearing as bizarre as reality itself. Hundreds of creators of theater history take the stage in this book, presenting us with classic scenes of avant-garde drama. Let us revisit these classics of "avant-garde drama": Marat/Sade (Peter Weiss), Look Back in Anger (John Osborne), The Room (Harold Pinter), Salome (Oscar Wilde), Ubu Roi (Arthur Rimbaud), The Chamber (Jean-Paul Sartre), Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett), A Servant (Jean Genet), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Luigi Pirandello), Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams), The Zoo (Edward Albee)