Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama
by
Anthony S. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen...