W. W. Norton College Books : English : NCE : Eight Modern Plays

The Texts of the Plays
Henrik Ibsen, The Wild Duck
Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters
George Bernard Shaw, Candida
August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
Backgrounds and Criticism
Emile Zola, Preface to Thérèse Raquin
Antonin Artaud, No More Masterpieces
Bert O. States, Expressionism and After
HENRIK IBSEN AND THE WILD DUCK
- Henrik Ibsen, Letters and Speeches
  - To Georg Brandes (December 20, 1870)
  - To Georg Brandes (February 17, 1871)
  - To Georg Brandes (September 24, 1871)
  - Speech at the Banquet in Stockholm (September 24, 1887)
  - Speech at the Banquet of the Norwegian League for Women’s Rights, May 26, 1898)
- M. C. Bradbrook, [The Wild Duck]
- Dorothea Krook, [The Wild Duck]
ANTON CHEKHOV AND THREE SISTERS
- Anton Chekhov, Letters
  - To Maria Kiseleva (January 14, 1887)
  - To Alexei Suvorin (May 30, 1888)
  - To Alexei Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
  - To Alexei Suvorin (December 9, 1890)
  - To Anatol Koni (January 26, 1891)
  - To Alexei Suvorin (March 17, 1892)
  - To Alexei Suvorin (November 25, 1892)
- Robert Brustein, [Chekhov’s Dramaturgy in The Three Sisters]
- Thomas R. Whitaker, [The Three Sisters]
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW AND CANDIDA
- George Bernard Shaw, Ideals and Idealists, Letters
  - To William Archer (April 21, 1898)
  - To James Huneker (April 6, 1904)
- Charles A. Carpenter, The Quintessence of Shaw’s Ethical Position
- William Irvine, [Candida]
AUGUST STRINDBERG AND THE GHOST SONATA
- August Strindberg, Paradise Regained
  - Tribulations
  - Author’s Note [to A Dream Play]
- Milton A. Mays, Strindberg’s Ghost Sonata: Parodied Fairy Tale on Original Sin
- Gerald Parker, [The Ghost Sonata]
LUIGI PIRANDELLO AND SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
- Luigi Pirandello, From Umorismo
- Anthony Caputi, [Six Characters in Search of an Author]
- Wylie Sypher, Cubist Drama
EUGENE O’NEILL AND LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
- Eugene O’Neill, From the New York Tribune, February 13, 1921
  - Letters to George Jean Nathan
  [On Welded] (May 7, 1923)
  [On Desire Under the Elms] (March 26, 1925)
  [On the Playwright Today]
  - [A Conversational Remark]
  - A Letter to Arthur Hobson Quinn
  - From an Interview with Oliver M. Sayler
- Harold Clurman, [Long Day’s Journey into Night]
- Richard B. Sewall, Long Day’s Journey into Night
BERTOLT BRECHT AND MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN
- Bertolt Brecht, "Theatre for Pleasure and Theatre for Instruction"
  - From A Short Organum for the Theatre
  - From a Letter to an Actor
- Martin Esslin, From "The Uses of Commitment"
- Richard Gilman, [Mother Courage and Her Children]
SAMUEL BECKETT AND HAPPY DAYS
- Samuel Beckett, From Proust
- Daniel J. Alpaugh, Negative Definition in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days
- Hugh Kenner, [Happy Days]
- Charles R. Lyons, Some Analogies Between the Epic Brecht and the Absurdist Beckett

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Eight Modern Plays

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