Strindberg and Ibsen: Toward a Cubism of Time in Drama

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Dates of Original Publication vii
4. Introduction ix
5. The Dangerous Seductions of the Past: Ibsen's Counter-Discourse to Modernity 1
6. Patterns of Structure and Character in Ibsen's Rosmersholm 18
7. Marriage, Metaphysics and The Lady from the Sea Problem 28
8. The Unspoken Text in Hedda Gabler 40
9. Ibsen's Endgame: A Reconsideration of When We Dead Awaken 57
10. Strindberg and Ibsen: Toward a Cubism of Time in Drama 69
11. Strindberg's Miss Julie and the Legend of Salomé 92
12. Strindberg's To Damascus: Archetypal Autobiography 110
13. Pirandello's Mirror 127
14. Pirandellian Theatre Games: Spectator as Victim 142
15. An Author in Search of Characters: Pirandello and Commedia dell'arte 151
16. Sicilian Themes and the Restructured Stage: The Dialectic of Fiction and Drama in the Work of Luigi Pirandello 170
17. Six Characters: Pirandello's Last Tape 181
18. Godotology: There's Lots of Time in Godot 191
19. Action and Play in Beckett's Theater 200
20. Acting for Beckett 210
21. Beckett as Director: The Manuscript Production Notebooks and Critical Interpretation 212
22. Being and Non-Being: Samuel Beckett's Not I 228
23. Samuel Beckett's Media Plays 241
24. Reading as Theatre: Understanding Defamiliarization in Beckett's Art 259
25. Roundelay 279
26. Suggestions for Further Reading 281
27. Contributors 285
28. Index 289