Mirrors of our playing : paradigms and presences in modern drama / Thomas R. Whitaker.
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | Theater--theory/text/performance.
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Table of Contents:
- Playing with the playboy: Synge and tradition
- The music of serious farce: Wilde, Shaw, Orton, and Stoppard
- Communities of heartbreak: from Chekhov and Shaw to Friel and Smith
- Playing hell: Sartre, Beckett, Genet, and Pinter
- The presence of Byron
- Wham, bam, thank you Sam
- Soyinka's roads to the abyss
- Brook and the purpose of playing
- Afterword: Angels in america
- Works cited
- Index.