A pocket guide to twentieth century drama / Stephen Unwin with Carole Woddis.
| Author/creator | Unwin, Stephen author. |
| Other author | Woddis, Carole, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; New York : Faber and Faber, 2001. |
| Description | xviii, 300 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Pocket guide to 20th century drama |
| Portion of title | Twentieth century drama |
| Series | A pocket guide to Pocket guide (Faber and Faber) ^A1485862 |
| Contents | Introduction -- The fifty greatest plays? / Stephen Unwin, Carole Woddis -- La ronde / Arthur Schnitzler -- The dance of death / August Strindberg -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- The Voysey inheritance / Harley Granville Barker -- The playboy of the western world / J. M. Synge -- Rutherford and son / Githa Sowerby -- The daughter-in-law / D. H. Lawrence -- Heartbreak house / George Bernard Shaw -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Juno and the paycock / Sean O'Casey -- Journey's end / R. C. Sherriff -- The front page / Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur -- Private lives / Noël Coward -- Tales from the Vienna woods / Ödön von Horváth -- Blood wedding / Federico Garciá Lorca -- Murder in the cathedral / T. S. Eliot -- Mother Courage and her children / Bertolt Brecht -- Long day's journey into night / Eugene O'Neill -- An inspector calls / J. B. Priestley -- Men should weep / Ena Lamont Steward -- The maids / Jean Genet -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- The deep blue sea / Terence Rattigan -- The chairs / Eugene Ionesco -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- The visit / Friedrich Dürrenmatt -- Look back in anger / John Osborne -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- The caretaker / Harold Pinter -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Edward Albee -- Oh what a lovely war / Theatre Workshop -- Saved / Edward Bond -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead / Tom Stoppard -- What the butler saw / Joe Orton -- Sizwe Bansi is dead / Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona -- Absurd person singular / Alan Ayckbourn -- American buffalo / David Mamet -- Plenty / David Hare -- Translations / Brian Friel -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- Fool for love / Sam Shepard -- Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme / Frank McGuinness -- Fences / August Wilson -- Our country's good / Timberlake Wertenbaker -- Angels in America / Tony Kushner -- Blasted / Sarah Kane -- The weir / Conor McPherson -- Closer / Patrick Marber -- Copenhagen / Michael Frayn -- A chronology of a thousand plays of the twentieth century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2003447838 |
| ISBN | 0571200141 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780571200146 (paperback) |