Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (Pelican S.) - Softcover

Williams, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140214925 ISBN 13: 9780140214925

Publisher: Penguin, 1973

Synopsis

407 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. The Book Is A Fully Revised And Exanded Sucessor To Drama From Ibsen To Eliot. It Is An Uncompromising Reappraisal Of Europ's Doremost Dramatists, And The Author Aims To Provide Not So Much A History Of The Drama Between The Years 1850 And 1960 As A Critical Acount And Revaluation.

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"His complex character, indeed his whole life, was held together by two qualities - scholarship and political conviction - which made him a major influence on three decades of political thought" (Independent)

"He was the foremost political thinker of his generation in Britain who in his most formidable books, Culture And Society, The Long Revolution and The Country and the City, redrew the map of our cultural history, and elsewhere made heroic interventions in the main political debates of his time" (Guardian)

"For those who read English in the '60s, it was common to revere Williams as both a rock of integrity and a pathfinder for new ways of seeing culture, communication, class and democracy" (Independent)

"He shows us the language and imagery, the beliefs and developed ideas, the hidden assumptions and class biases, and the 'structures of feeling' of literally hundreds of writers, major and minor, poets and pamphleteers, geniuses and hacks. . . . His erudition is immense" (Marshall Berman)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140214925
• ISBN 13: 9780140214925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424