INDEX

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ABEL, LIONEL, Metatheatre

Action

Adamov, Arthur

Aeschylus

Agamemnon

Choephori

Albee, Edward

Ambiguity

and Brecht

and Ibsen

and Strindberg. See also Ambivalence; Conflict; Dualism

Ambivalence, and Ibsen

and Strindberg. See also Ambiguity; Conflict; Dualism

Andreyev, L. N.

Anouilh, Jean

Antonelli, Luigi

Apollinaire, Guillaume, Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Archer, William

Aristophanic comedy

Aristotelian drama, and Pirandello

and Shaw

Arnold, Paul

“The Artaud Experiment”

Art, artists

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

Artaud, Antonio

The Conquest of Mexico

“The Evolution of Scenery”

“No More Masterpieces”

The Spurt of Blood

The Theatre and Its Double

The Umbilicus of Limbo

Audiberti, Jacques

Audience

Autobiography, and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Strindberg

BACON, FRANCIS

Balzac, Honoré de

Barton, Bruce

Baudelaire, Charles

Beaumarchais, Pierre A. C. de

Beckett, Samuel

Happy Days

Waiting for Godot

Becque, Henri

Beethoven, Ludwig von

Belasco, David

Bellamy, Edward

Bentham, Jeremy

Bentley, Eric

Bernard Shaw

Bergson, Henri

Betti, Ugo, Queen and the Rebels

Bjørnsen, Bjørnstjerne

Blake, William

Blin, Roger

The Blue Angel

Bluebeard, story of

Bosch, Hieronymus

Boucicault, Dion

The Octoroon

Brandes, Georg

Brecht, Bertolt

adaptation of Antigone

Arturo Ui

Baal

Baden Didactic Play: On Consent

“Buddha’s Parable of the Burning House”

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

and Shakespeare, As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing

“Concerning Poor B.B.”

Drums in the Night

Galileo

The Good Woman of Setzuan

Happy End

Hauspostille

Herr Puntila and His Servant, Matti

In the Jungle of Cities

and Bentley

and Büchner, Danton’s Death

Woyzeck

and Esslin

and Jensen, The Wheel

and Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer

and Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale

and Sinclair, The Jungle

Lehrstücke

A Man’s a Man

The Measures Taken

Mother Courage and Her Children

and Threepenny Opera

and Corneille, Le Cid

and Dryden, The Conquest of Granada

and Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus

and O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars

and Schiller, Wallenstein

and Shakespeare, Henry V

and Synge, Riders to the Sea

Die Mutter

Poetics, The Little Organon for the Theatre

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

and Goethe, Faust

Señora Carrar’s Rifles

and Synge, Riders to the Sea

The Seven Deadly Sins

“Of Swimming in Lakes and Rivers”

The Threepenny Novel

The Threepenny Opera

and Mother Courage

and Gay, The Beggar’s Opera

and Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris

and Molière, Tartuffe

and Villon

and Weber

and Wedekind

“A Worker Reads History”

Breton, André

Breughel, Pieter

Brieux, Eugène

Brown, Norman O., Life Against Death

Buddhism

and Brecht

and Strindberg

Büchner, Georg

Danton’s Death

Woyzeck

CAMUS, ALBERT

The Rebel

Cargill, Fagin, and Fisher, eds., O’Neill and His Plays

Carlyle, Thomas

Catholicism, and Strindberg

The Cenci

Characters, characterization, and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg. See also Hero, heroine (protagonist)

Chekhov, Anton

“The Betrothed”

The Cherry Orchard

and The Three Sisters

and Boucicault, The Octoroon

and Faulkher, The Hamlet

and Renoir, Grand Illusion

and Strindberg, Miss Julie

and Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“In the Ravine”

Ivanov

“My Life”

Notebooks

Platinov

The Seagull

The Three Sisters

and “In the Ravine”

and Stanislavsky

Uncle Vanya

The Wood Demon

Chesterton, G. K.

Chiarelli, Luigi

The Mask and the Face

Christianity

and O’Neill

and Strindberg

Classicism

and Brecht

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Claudel, Paul

Cocteau, Jean

La Machine Infernale

Oedipe

Coleridge, Samuel

Comédie Française

Comedy

and Artaud

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Communism

and Brecht. See also Marx, Marxism; Socialism

Conflict

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Strindberg. See also Ambiguity; Ambivalence; Dualism

Confucianism

and Brecht

Congreve, William

Corneille, Pierre, Le Cid

Cornford, F. L., The Origins of Attic Comedy

Crabtree, Paul

DADA

and Artaud

and Brecht

Dahlström, Carl E. W., Strindberg’s Dramatic Expressionism

D’Annunzio, Gabriele

Darwin, Charles R., Darwinism

Origin of the Species

DeMille, Cecil B.

Descartes, René

Detachment

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

Diderot, Denis

Dietrichson, Lorentz

Döblin, Alfred

Donne, John

Dostoyevsky, Feodor

The Brothers Karamazov

Dryden, John, The Conquest of Granada

Dualism, and Brecht

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Shaw

and Strindberg. See also Ambiguity; Ambivalence; Conflict

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

The Visit of the Old Lady

Dullin, Charles

ECCLESIASTES

Eliot, T. S.

Burnt Norton

The Family Reunion

Murder in the Cathedral

“Sweeney” poems

Esslin, Martin

Euripides

Exile

and Ibsen

and Strindberg

Existential revolt

and Artaud

and Brecht

and Genet

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Expressionism

and O’Neill

and Strindberg

FAULKNER, WILLIAM, The Hamlet

Fergusson, Francis

Feuchtwanger, Lion

Fitch, Clyde

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flaubert, Gustave

Ford, John, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Form, dramatic

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg. See also headings pertaining to dramatic form

Freud, Sigmund

Civilization and Its Discontents

Frisch, Max

“Recollections of Brecht”

Frye, Northrup, The Anatomy of Criticism

GALILEO

Gautier, Théophile

Gay, John

The Beggar’s Opera

Gelb, Arthur and Barbara, O’Neill

Gelber, Jack

Genet, Jean

The Balcony

and The Blacks

and Betti, Queen and the Rebels

and Cocteau, Oedipe

and Yeats, The Player Queen

The Blacks

and The Balcony

and The Screens

and Ionesco

and Pirandello

and Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer

Deathwatch

The Maids

Our Lady of the Flowers

The Screens

The Thief’s Journal

Ghelderode, Michel de

Gilbert, W. S.

Giraudoux, Jean

Goethe, Johann W. von

Faust

Gorky, Maxim

Goya, Francisco José de

Graham, Billy

Gray, Ronald, Bertolt Brecht

El Greco

Grimmelshausen, Jakob C. von, Simplicissimus

Grosz, George, A Little Yes and a Big No

Guicharnaud, Jacques

HAMSUN, KNUT

Hardy, Thomas, Dynasts

Hauptmann, Gerhart

Hebbel, Friedrich

Hegel, Georg W. F.

Henderson, Archibald

Hero, heroine (protagonist)

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

and Strindberg

Hinduism

and Strindberg

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Hugo, Victor

Notre Dame de Paris

Hyndman, H. M.

IBSEN, HENRIK

Brand

A Doll’s House

Emperor and Galilean

An Enemy of the People

Ghosts

Hedda Gabler

and Ghosts

John Gabriel Borkman

The League of Youth

Little Eyolf

The Master Builder

“On the Heights”

Peer Gynt

and Brand

Pillars of Society

The Pretenders

Rosmersholm

and Ghosts

“To My Friend, the Revolutionary Orator”

The Vikings at Helgeland

When We Dead Awaken

and Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

The Wild Duck

and An Enemy of the People

Idea

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

Idealism, ideal

and Ibsen

and Shaw

Ihring, Herbert

Illusion

and Artaud

and Genet

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

Imagery, and Brecht

and Chekhov

Individualism

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

Ionesco, Eugene

Chairs

Jack

The Submission

Irony

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

and Shaw

JARRY, ALFRED

Ubu Roi

Jensen, J. V., The Wheel

Jonson, Ben

Volpone

Jouvet, Louis

Joyce, James

Ulysses

Jung, Carl G.

KAFKA, FRANZ

Kierkegaard, Sören

Kleist, Heinrich von, Penthesilea

Krapp’s Last Tape

Krutch, Joseph Wood

LACENAIRE, PIERRE-FRANÇOIS

Lagerkvist, Pär

Lamarck, Lamarckism

Lamm, Martin

Langner, Lawrence

Language

and Artaud

and Genet

and Ibsen

Lao-Tse

Lautréamont, Comte de (Isidore Ducasse)

Lavrin, Janko

Lawrence, D. H.

Lessing, Gotthold E.

Lillo, George

Lorca, Federico García

Lucas, F. L., Ibsen and Strindberg

Luethy, Herbert

“Of Poor B.B.”

MAETERLINCK, MAURICE

Magarshack, David, Chekhov the Dramatist

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Marlowe, Christopher

Marston, John

Martini, Vincenzo

Marx, Karl, Marxism

Critique of Political Economy. See also Communism

Marx Brothers

Materialism, and Strindberg

Mehring, Walter

Menander

Mencken, H. L.

Mendès, Catulle

Messianic revolt

and Artaud

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Middle class, bourgeoisie

and Brecht

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

Middleton, Thomas

Miller, Arthur

All My Sons

Milton, John

Molière

Tartuffe

Montaigne

Mozart–Da Ponte, Don Giovanni

Myth. See also Theatre, myth

NATHAN, GEORGE JEAN

Naturalism

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Strindberg

Nelson, Benjamin, “The Balcony and Parisian Existentialism”

Nietzsche, Friedrich W.

The Birth of Tragedy

Thus Spake Zarathustra

OBJECTIVITY

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Strindberg

O’Casey, Sean

The Plough and the Stars

Odets, Clifford

Ohmann, Richard M., Shaw: The Style and the Man

Omar Khayyam

O’Neill, Eugene

Ah Wilderness!

All God’s Chillun Got Wings

Beyond the Horizon

“Big Grand Opus”

Days Without End

and Ah Wilderness!

and Strindberg, Inferno

The Road to Damascus

Desire Under the Elms

Dynamo

The Fountain

The Great God Brown

The Hairy Ape

The Iceman Cometh

and Barton

and Graham

and Ibsen, The Wild Duck

and Shakespeare

and Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Lazarus Laughed

A Long Day’s Journey into Night

and Desire Under the Elms

and The Iceman Cometh

and A Moon for the Misbegotten

and Mourning Becomes Electra

and Baudelaire

and Ibsen

and Rossetti

and Strindberg

Marco Millions

A Moon for the Misbegotten

More Stately Mansions

Mourning Becomes Electra

and the Oresteia

S.S. Glencairn plays

Servitude

Strange Interlude

The Straw

A Touch of the Poet

Welded

and Strindberg

O’Neill, James

Oresteia

Osborne, John

Oxford English Dictionary

PARKS, EDD WINFIELD, “Eugene O’Neill’s Quest”

Paulson, Arvid, ed. and trans., Letters of Strindberg to Harriet Bosse

Pavlov, Ivan P.

Pepusch, John C.

Picasso, Pablo

Pichette, Henri

Pierret, Marc

Pinter, Harold

Pirandello, Luigi

As You Desire Me

Diana and Tuda

Each in His Own Way

Henry IV

and Brecht, In the Jungle of Cities

and Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium”

It Is So! (If You Think So)

The Late Mattia Pascal

Lazarus

Mountain Giants

The New Colony

The Pleasures of Honesty

The Rules of the Game

Six Characters in Search of an Author

and The Rules of the Game

Tonight We Improvise

Trovarsi

Umorismo

When One Is Somebody

Pitoëff, Georges

Platonism, and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Poe, Edgar Allan

Praz, Mario, The Romantic Agony

RACINE, JEAN

Phèdre

Raleigh, John Henry

Realism

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Reality

and Artaud

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Rebellion, revolt

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and Shaw

and Strindberg. See also Existential revolt; Messianic revolt; Social revolt

Religion, spiritual life

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and Strindberg. See also names of religions; and Messianic revolt

Renan, Ernest, Life of Christ

Renoir, Jean, Grand Illusion

Rimbaud, Arthur

Une Saison en Enfer

Ringelnitz, Joachim

Romanticism

and Artaud

and Brecht

Neo-Romanticism

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Rougemont, Denis de, Love in the Western World

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

SADE, MARQUIS DE

Sartre, Jean Paul

Saint Genet: Comédien et Martyr

Satanism

and Strindberg

Satire

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and Pirandello

and Strindberg

Schiller, Johann C. F. von

Wallenstein

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes

Science

and Strindberg. See also names of scientists

Self-involvement

self-conscious (Genet)

self-expression (Strindberg)

self-realization and self-revelation (Ibsen). See also Autobiography

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Atreus and Thyestes

Shakespeare, William

As You Like It

Henry V

King Lear

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

The Winter’s Tale

Shaw, Bernard

Arms and the Man

Back to Methuselah

and Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

The Devil’s Disciple

Everybody’s Political What’s What

Fanny’s First Play

Getting Married

Heartbreak House

and Man and Superman

and Chekhov

and Eliot, The Family Reunion

and Ibsen

and Tolstoi

and Yeats

and Russian drama

The Impossibilities of Anarchism

Major Barbara

Man and Superman

The Revolutionist’s Handbook

and Back to Methuselah

and Hyndman

and Mozart–Da Ponte, Don Giovanni

and Nietzsche

and Schopenhauer

and Strindberg

and Tirso de Molina, Burlador de Sevilla

and Walkley

and The Way of the World

and Much Ado About Nothing

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

Overruled

The Perfect Wagnerite

The Philanderer

Pygmalion

The Quintessence of Ibsenism

Saint Joan

The Sanity of Art

Too True to Be Good

You Never Can Tell

Sidney, Sir Philip, Defense of Poesy

Simmons, Ernest J., Chekhov

Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle

Social revolt

and Artaud

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Socialism, and Shaw

and Strindberg. See also Communism; Marx, Marxism

Sophocles

Antigone

Oedipus at Colonus

Sprigge, Elizabeth, The Strange Life of August Strindberg

Sprinchorn, Evert, “The Logic of A Dream Play

Stanislavsky, Konstantin S.

My Life in Art

The State, politics

and Ibsen. See also Social revolt

Steele, Sir Richard

Stoicism

and Strindberg

Stravinsky, Igor F.

Strindberg, August

Black Banners

The Bond

Comrades

Confessions of a Fool

Creditors

Crimes and Crimes

and The Father

The Dance of Death

A Dream Play

and The Father

and Ibsen, Pillars of Society

Easter

Eric XIV

“Esplanadsystemet”

The Father

and Ibsen, A Doll’s House

and Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The Freethinker

The Ghost Sonata

The Great Highway

Gustavus Vasa

Inferno

Master Olof

Miss Julie

The Outlaw

The Pelican

and Aeschylus, Choephori

The Road to Damascus

The Storm

Swanwhite

Subjectivism

and Brecht

and Chekhov

and Ibsen

and Strindberg. See also Romanticism

Supernaturalism

and Strindberg

Surrealism

and Artaud

and Genet

Swedenborg, Emmanuel

Swift, Jonathan

Swinburne, Algernon C.

Symbolism, and Ibsen

and Strindberg

Synge, John M.

Riders to the Sea

THEATRE, MODERN

and Artaud

and Genet

and Ibsen

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Theatre, of the absurd

Boulevard

commedia dell’arte

of communion

of cruelty

Greek. see also names of Greek dramatists; of the grotesque

myth

of the looking glass

Oriental

Roman, see also names of Roman dramatists

Western, see also names of Western dramatists. See also headings relating to the theatre; and Theatre of revolt

Théâtre de la Cruauté

Theatre director

Theatre of revolt

and Artaud

and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Pirandello

and Shaw

and Strindberg

and passim. See especially Existential revolt; Messianic revolt; Social revolt

Time

Tirso de Molina, Burlador de Sevilla

Toller, Ernst

Tolstoi, Leo N.

War and Peace

Toumanova, Princess, Anton Chekhov: The Voice of Twilight Russia

Tourneur, Cyril, The Atheist’s Tragedy

Tragedy

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Shaw

and Strindberg

Trilling, Lionel

“The Fate of Pleasure”

Trotsky, Leon

True Confessions magazine

Truth, and Chekhov

and Genet

and Ibsen

and O’Neill

and Strindberg

Turgenyev, Ivan S., A Month in the Country

Tzara, Tristan

VANNIER, JEAN, “A Theatre of Language”

Vauthier, Jear

Verga, Giovanni

Vico, Giovanni Battista, Scienza Nuova

Villon, Francois

Vitalism

Vitrac, Roger

Vittorini, Domenico

Voltaire

The Vultures

WAGNER, RICHARD

Ring cycle

Walkley, Arthur Bingham

The Way of the World

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice

Weber, Max

Webster, John

Wedekind, Frank

Erdgeist

Pandora’s Box

Weigand, Hermann

Weill, Kurt

Weingarten, Romain

Weismann, August

Well-made play, and Ibsen

and Pirandello

and Shaw

Wells, H. G.

Wesker, Arnold

Wilde, Oscar

Wilder, Thornton

Willett, John, The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht

Williams, Tennessee

The Glass Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

Wilson, Edmund

“Bernard Shaw at Eighty”

Winsten, Stephen

Wolf, Lucie

Wycherley, William

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

The Player Queen

Purgatory

“Sailing to Byzantium”

ZOLA, EMILE