作者:CAPUTI, ANTHONY (EDT) 出版社:W W NORTON & CO INC 出版日期:1991年04月01日 語言:英文 ISBN:0393960153 裝訂:平裝 內容簡介TOPTHIS NORTON CRITICAL EDITION PRESENTS SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT VOICESIN MODERN DRAMA AND, THROUGH THE INCLUSION OF SUPPORTING MATERIALS,PLACES EACH PLAY IN ITS PROPER INTELLECTUAL, ARTISTIC, AND HISTORICALCONTEXT.INCLUDED HERE ARE THE COMPLETE TEXTS OF EIGHT MAJOR PLAYS BY EIGHTMAJOR PLAYWRIGHTS: HENRIK IBSEN’S THE WILD DUCK, ANTON CHEKHOV’S THREESISTERS, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’S CANDIDA, AUGUST STRINDBERG’S THE GHOSTSONATA, LUIGI PIRANDELLO’S SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR,EUGENE O’NEILL’S LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, BERTOLT BRECHT’S MOTHERCOURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, AND SAMUEL BECKETT’S HAPPY DAYS.THE MOST ACCURATE AND READABLE TRANSLATIONS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN FOR PLAYSORIGINALLY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING A NEW TRANSLATION OFPIRANDELLO’S SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR BY ANTHONY CAPUTI,BASED ON THE DEFINITIVE ITALIAN TEXT OF 1925.EACH PLAY HAS BEEN CAREFULLY ANNOTATED FOR THE STUDENT READER--FOREIGNWORDS AND PHRASES ARE TRANSLATED, ALLUSIONS BEYOND THE RANGE OF GENERALKNOWLEDGE ARE EXPLAINED, AND HISTORICAL MATERIAL IS INCLUDED AS NEEDED.A COMPREHENSIVE "BACKGROUNDS AND CRITICISM" SECTION PROVIDES SUPPORTINGMATERIALS BY EACH PLAYWRIGHT REPRESENTED--LETTERS, ESSAYS, AUTHORS’NOTES--AS WELL AS A BROAD SAMPLING OF CRITICAL REVIEWS ANDINTERPRETATIONS FOR EACH PLAY.A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY IS ALSO INCLUDED.