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Much has been made of the gains of the multicultural reconstruction of the canon of world drama, but what about the works that have been abandoned to make room for the new ones? Lost Masterpieces of Euro-American Drama brings together ten plays that have been dropped from the major anthologies of world drama over the past twenty years, in order to examine the consequences of the new canonization for our understanding of the development of dramatic form. Those plays are Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters (1743), Musset’s No Trifling with Love (1834), Gogol’s The Inspector General (1836), Hebbel’s Maria Magdalene (1844), Tolstoy’s The Power of Darkness (1886), Yeats’s The Countess Cathleen (1892), Wedekind’s Earth Spirit (1895), Čapek’s R.U.R. (1920), Hecht and MacArthur’s The Front Page (1928), and Sartre’s No Exit (1944).
作者簡介
Bert Cardullo’s essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Yale Review, Cambridge Quarterly, Modern Drama, Theater, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. He is the author, editor, or translator of a number of books, among them Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950; Eight Modern Plays: An Archaeology of Western Drama; Antigone Adapted: Sophocles’ “Antigone” in Classic Drama and Modern Adaptation, Translation, and Transformation; The Theater of Carlo Terron: Two Plays; German-Language Comedy: A Critical Anthology; and A Critical Edition of Two Modern Plays on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff: “Chimes at Midnight, “ by Orson Welles, and “The Knight of the Moon,” by Fernand Crommelynck.