Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form

Lionel Abel

Hill and Wang, 1966 - Drama - 146 pages

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Review: Metatheatre: A New View Of Dramatic Form

User Review  - Phil - Goodreads

I had high hopes for this book being totally awesome, and I was only sometimes disappointed. I am really intrigued by metatheatre or metadrama as a form, though I think there may be more of a ...

Review: Metatheatre: A New View Of Dramatic Form

User Review  - Robert Beveridge - Goodreads

According to Lionel Abel, classic tragedy died with Macbeth, and a new kind of pseudo-tragedy rose with Hamlet. Since "pseudo-tragedy" is a mouthful and Abel is a contemporary of those critics whose ...

Contents

• Daemons True and False: 2
• The Fate of Athaliahand Racine: 11
• Hamlet Q E D: 40

Bibliographic information

• Title: Metatheatre: A New View of Dramatic Form; A Dramabook; Volume 33 of Dramabooks. Criticism. D
• Author: Lionel Abel
• Publisher: Hill and Wang, 1966
• Length: 146 pages