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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
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
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
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 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.
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”
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 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
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