Modernist theatre was part of twentieth-century theatre relating to the art and philosophy of modernism.
List of modernist plays
- Long Day's Journey into Night[1]
- Waiting for Godot[2]
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?[2]
- The Caretaker[3]
- A Streetcar Named Desire[4]
List of modernist playwrights
- Eugene O'Neill[1]
- Samuel Beckett[2]
- Edward Albee[2]
- Harold Pinter[3]
- Tennessee Williams[4]
- Anton Chekhov[5]
- Bertolt Brecht[6]
- Henrik Ibsen[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b "The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill: American Modernism on the World Stage". jadtjournal.org. 9 April 2021.
- ^ a b c d McGuckin, Sheila (January 1, 1996). "The Theater of the Absurd in Europe and America: Sartre, Beckett, Pinter, Albee and drama criticism". Doctoral Dissertations.
- ^ a b Begley, Varun (2005). Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442675629. ISBN 9781442675629. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442675629.
- ^ a b "A Modernist Trait in 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Happy Endings are Overrated". the-artifice.com.
- ^ Anton Chekhov — Modernism Lab
- ^ Bertolt Brecht — Modernism Lab
- ^ Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett: Essays from Modern Drama on JSTOR