This Norton Critical Edition presents some of the most important voices in modern drama and, through the inclusion of supporting materials, places each play in its proper intellectual, artistic, and historical context. Included here are the complete texts of eight major plays by eight major playwrights: Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, George Bernard Shaw's Candida, August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days.
Modern and Contemporary Irish Drama is the ideal focal point for the study of Irish literature and culture and, because of its many great twentieth-century works, for the study of drama more generally.
Specifically commissioned for stage production, it rings easily on the modern ear and yet remains faithful to Sophocles' original, avoiding the archaisms of other translations.
This Second Edition builds on its predecessor’s strengths by adding a sixth play, Aphra Behn’s The Rover, a comedy that has clearly come into prominence in recent years. The plays are fully annotated for the modern reader and are accompanied by six illustrations.
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