The Theatre of Revolt

by Robert Brustein

Methuen & Co., 1965, First edition
Hardcover, dustjacket

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-lib with sticker residue and stamp to title page, tear to back endpaper.  Dustjacket very good, clipped with stickers (see photographs)

“This study of ideas and development of the modern drama breaks new ground.  Brustein finds the roots of modern theatre in the rebellion expressed by eight outstanding playwrights:  Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, O’Neill and Genet.  Focussing on each in turn, he examines the nature of their rebellion, the methods employed in their plays, their influences on the modern theatre.  The revolt may be against God, against society, against existence itself.  It begins with the revolt against the ‘official culture’, the accepted ideas in art and literature rendered stale by bourgeois society.”