Eugene Ionesco

Ionesco, EugÈne - özhĕnˈ yŏnĕsˈkō, 1912–94, French playwright, b. Romania. Settling in France in 1938, he contributed to Cahiers du Sud and began writing avant-garde plays. His works stress the absurdity both of bourgeois values and of the way of life that they dictate. They express the futility of human endeavor in a universe ruled by Read More...

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Playwrights and Acting: Acting Methodologies for Brecht, Ionesco, Pinter, and Shepard
by James H. McTeague. 180 pgs.

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This book analyzes the acting aesthetic of Brecht, Ionesco, Pinter, and Shepard and presents a detailed methodological approach to the performance of their plays. The originality of the book lies in the systematic and critical analysis of both the process of preparing a role and the shifting assumptions on matters essential for a coherent acting methodology for each playwright. The book is distinctive in that it focuses almost exclusively on the playwrights' published remarks concerning the theatre and acting, supplemented with observations by actors and directors who were close collaborators with the playwrights on productions.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Preface

Acknowledgments

One New Forms--New Actors

Two Bertolt Brecht

Three Eugene Ionesco

Four Harold Pinter

Five Sam Shepard

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliograhy

Index

About the Author
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Rhinoceros, and Other Plays
by Eugene Ionesco, Derek Prouse. 148 pgs.

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The 3 satiric comedies included in this collection are Rhinoceros, The Future Is in Eggs, and The Leader.

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Rhinoceros

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The Leader

The Future is in Eggs or it Takes All Sorts to Make a World
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Makers of the Modern Theater ("The Bald Soprano" by Eugene Ionesco begins on p. 601)
by Barry Ulanov. 746 pgs.

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John Gabriel Borkman

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To Damascus, Part I

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Ivanov

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Hannele

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Getting Married

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On Baile's Strand Purgatory

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Purgatory

The Well of the Saints

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Purple Dust

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Hoppla! Such is Life!

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Henry IV

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The Queen and the Rebels

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Sodom and Gomorrah Song of Songs

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Song of Songs

Antigone

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The Master of Santiago

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Ariadne

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The Bald Soprano

Yerma

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The Long Voyage Home

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Camino Real

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A View from the Bridge
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Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern ("The Modern 'Myth of Incommunicability' in Ionesco's Theater: The Chairs and The Bald Soprano" begins on p. 139)
by Bruce A. Butterfield, Jurgen Kleist. 226 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Table of Contents

Preface

Ancient Myths in Modern Contexts

If Gods Were Hormones: Fractals, Catastrophes and Other Good Things in Homer's Odyssey

Notes and Comments

Appendix B

Parody And: The Character of Ulysses

The Labyrinth and the Minotaur in Don Quixote and "The House of Asterion" by Jorge Luis Borges

Don Juan as Myth

Amazonian Indian Myths in Mário De Andrade's Macunaéma (1928)

Myth and Society

French-Canadian Messianism

Endnotes

The Myth of American Exceptionalism and Global Peace

The Myth of Tolerance: Historical Dimensions of a German-Jewish Friendship

Socialism: Myth and Reality

Terrorism And/Or Sacrifice in Les Justes

Notes

The Modern "Myth of Incommunicability" in Ionesco's Theater: The Chairs and the Bald Soprano

Writing the Body: "Qui Tient Le/La Greffe?"

Myth, Science, and Technology

From Science to Mythology: a New Vision of Reality

References

The Myth of Mind as Machine: Mankind's Misunderstanding of Self

Myths of Re(-)creation: Mythology in the (post-)nuclear Worl d

Myths Doubling Back to Back to the Future Part II a Ii-Part Future: The Two Back-To-Back Doubling Myths

The Authors of This Book

The Editors

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Symbolism, the Sacred and the Arts ("Eugene Ionesco and 'The Nostalgia for Paradise'" begins on p. 164)
by Mircea Eliade, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. 185 pgs.

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Symbolism, the Sacred, and the Arts

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mircea Eliade: the Scholar as Artist, Critic, and Poet

Part I: Theories of Symbolism

I/1 the Symbolism of Shadows in Archaic Religions

I/2 Cultural Fashions and the History of Religions

I/3 Survivals and Camouflages of Myths

Part Ii: Art and the Sacred

Ii/1 Divinities: Art and the Divine

Ii/2 Masks: Mythical and Ritual Origins

Ii/3 Reflections on Indian Art

Ii/4 the Sacred and the Modern Artist

Ii/5 a Dialogue with Marc Chagall

Ii/6 Brancusi and Mythology

Part Iii: Bites of the Sacred

Iii/1 Sacred Architecture and Symbolism

Iii/2 Barabudur, the Symbolic Temple

Iii/3 from the Portuguese Journal, 1941-1944

Part Iv: Literature and the Sacred

Iv/1 Folkloric Themes and Artistic Creations

Iv/2 Marthe Bibesco and the Meeting of Eastern and Western Literature

Iv/3 Eugene Ionesco and "The Nostalgia for Paradise"

Iv/4 Literary Imagination and Religious Structure

Bibliography

Photographic Credits

Index
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The Conflict of Instincts in 'Le Roi Se Meurt,' in Journal of European Studies
by C. E. J. Dolamore. 16 pgs.

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Adam at Odds with Eve: Ionesco and the Woman's Mission, in Journal of European Studies
by C. E. J. Dolamore. 16 pgs.

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Between Myth and Reference: Puig and Ionesco, in The Romanic Review
by Michael Issacharoff, Lelia Madrid. 12 pgs.

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Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama (Chap. 5 "Ionesco and L'insolite")
by Patrick D. Murphy, Marshall B. Tymn. 248 pgs.

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This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean. Canonical figures, such as Strindberg, Yeats, Beckett, Ionesco, Cocteau, and Stoppard are studied, along with neglected figures and innovative new performance troupes and individual artists. Concluding essays are devoted to contemporary experimental theatre and postmodern drama, and a study of science fiction on stage includes an annotated listing of forty English-language plays.

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Introduction

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1: When Formula Seizes Form: Oscar Wilde's Comedies

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2: A Task Most Difficult: Staging Yeats's Mystical Dramas at the Abbey

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3: The Perilous Edge: Strindberg, Madness, and Other Worlds

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4: Wassily Kandinsky's Stage Composition Yellow Sound: The Fantastic and the Symbolic Mode of Communication

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5: Ionesco and L'Insolite

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6: Ambiguity and the Supernatural in Cocteau's La Machine Infernale

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7: Beckett and the Horrific

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8: Multiplicities of Illusion in Tom Stoppard's Plays

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9: Leivick's the Golem and the Golem Legend

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10: Dream on Monkey Mountain: Fantasy as Self-Perception

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11: Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia: A Performance Gesture

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12: The Shock of the Actual: Disrupting the Theatrical Illusion Theodore Shank

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13: Playing at the End of the World: Postmodern Theater

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14: "Infinity in a Cigar Box": The Problem of Science Fiction on the Stage

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Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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20th Century French Drama (Chap. 8 "Ionesco, Adamov, Beckett")
by David I. Grossvogel. 378 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Note

Some Implications of Laughter

I: Intellectual Self-Conciousness: from the Ridiculous to the Great Absurd

1: Les Enfanṭs Terribles

2: Perils of Debate: Giraudoux

3: Further Perils of Debate

4: Commercialism Reconsidered: Anouilh

II: The Pain of Laughter

5: The Belgian Current

6: Crommelynck

7: Ghelderode

III: Tomorrow?

8: Ionesco, Adamov, Beckett

Bibliography

Index
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Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992 ("Eugene O'Neill - Eugene Ionesco - Sam Shepard" begins on p. 215)
by Christopher Innes. 262 pgs.

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Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a desire to find ritual in archaic traditions. This widespread primitivism is the key to understanding both the political and aesthetic aspects of modern theatre and provides fresh insights into contemporary social trends.The original text, first published in 1981 as Holy Theatre , has been fully revised and up-dated to take account of the most recent theoretical developments in anthropology, critical theory and psychotherapy. New sections on Heiner Muller, Robert Wilson, Eugenio Barba, Ariane Mnouchkine and Sam Shepard have been added. As a result, the book now deals with all the major avant garde theatre practitioners, in Europe and North America. Avant Garde Theatre will be essential reading for anyone attempting to understand contemporary drama.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1: Introduction

2: The Politics of Primitivism

3: Dreams, Archetypes and the Irrational

4: Therapy and Subliminal Theatre

5: Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty

6: Ritual and Acts of Communion

7: Black Masses and Ceremonies of Negation

8: Myth and Theatre Laboratories

9: Secular Religions and Physical Spirituality

10: Anthropology, Environmental Theatre and Sexual Revolution

11: Interculturalism and Expropriating the Classics

12: From the Margins to Mainstream

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Dionysus in Paris: Guide to Contemporary French Theater (1960) ("Ionesco (1912-)" begins on p. 229)
by Wallace Fowlie. 320 pgs.

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Foreword

I. Introductions

2. Theaters, Directors, and Actors

Ii. Approaches to Tragedy

1. Giraudoux (1882-1944)

2. Cocteau (1892- )

3. Montherlant (1896- )

4. Anouilh (1910- )

Iii. Religious Theater

1. Claudel (1868-1955)

2. the Problem of a Religious Theater: Bernanos (1888-1948) and Mauriac (1885- )

Iv. Theater of Ideas

1. Gide (1869-1951)

2. Sartre (1905- )

3. Camus (1913-1960)

V. Experimental Theater

1. the Little Theater

2. Artaud (1895-1948)

3. Beckett (1906- )

4. Genet (1909- )

5. Adamov (1908- )

6. Ionesco (1912- )

7. Schehadé (1910- )

Vi. Conclusions

2. Mallarmé and the Aesthetics Of the Theater

3. the French Theater and The Concept of Communion

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Reception and Renewal in Modern Spanish Theatre, 1939-1963 ("Eugene Ionesco" begins on p. 120)
by John London. 273 pgs.

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Reception and Renewal in Modern Spanish Theatre: 1939-1963

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

List of Plates

Introduction

Chapter One: Escapist Theatre

Chapter Two: Religious and Didactic Theatre

Chapter Three: Serious North-American Drama

Chapter Four: The Parisian Avant-Garde

Chapter Five: Aesthetic, Social, and Political Conclusions

Chapter Six: Historia De Una Escalera, Escuadra Hacia La Muerte, and the Forgotten Genre of the Theatre of the Absurd

Chapter Seven: Fernando Arrabal: a Dramatist Displaced

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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