An essential volume for theater artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the m

" ... Full texts of sixteen important plays, each preceded by a historical-critical introduction and followed by an essay, often written by the playwright, that

Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history.

Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde be

New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics th