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The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama
University of Alabama Press, 1988 Cloth: 978-0-8173-0396-9 | Paper: 978-0-8173-1202-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8253-7 Library of Congress Classification PN1851.A23 1989 Dewey Decimal Classification 809.204
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game. See other books on: Drama | Illusion | Modern Drama | Reality | Reality in literature See other titles from University of Alabama Press |
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The Vital Lie: Reality and Illusion in Modern Drama
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Alabama Press, 1988
Cloth: 978-0-8173-0396-9
Paper: 978-0-8173-1202-2
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8253-7
Cloth: 978-0-8173-0396-9
Paper: 978-0-8173-1202-2
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8253-7
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
