Eight Modern Plays: A Norton Critical Edition

By: Caputi, Anthony

Included here are the complete texts of eight major plays by eight major playwrights: Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, George Bernard Shaw's Candida, August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata, Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and Samuel Beckett's Happy Days.

The most accurate and readable translations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393960153
• ISBN13: 9780393960150
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Perfect Collection

This collection defines modern drama. From Ibsen's realistic masterpiece The Wild Duck, to Pirandello's brilliant and revolutionary Six Characters in Search of an Author, to Eugene O'Neill's pitch-perfect character study Long Day's Journey Into Night, this collection is the epitome of modern dramatic literature in all its variations. Even the criticism for each play is brilliant. A definite recommendation for serious readers who haven't read any of these, but want to.