Author: HEILMAN, ROBERT BECHTOLD
Title: The Iceman, the Arsonist, and the Troubled Agent - Tragedy and Melodrama on the Modern Stage
Description: London, George Allen and Unwin. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0047920092). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small name to front pastedown and a very small light mark to fore edge). Dustjacket has a little wear to edges and is not price clipped. xviii + 357 pages. In this provocative study, Professor Heilman probes the concepts that underlie contemporary drama and traces the struggle between tragedy and melodrama on the modern stage. Rejecting cliché and accepted attitudes, he shows how different dramatists look at individual character and at society, and how themes such as human weakness and perversity, destructive assaults on the community, modes of salvation, and the uses of money are dealt with by 20th century playwrights. NOT EX LIB 4. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Theatre, Melodrama, Tragedy, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Max Frisch, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Duerrenmatt 0047920092


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