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Article: Twentieth-Century European Drama.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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Almost all the major European dramatists of the past fifty years are either explored or mentioned in this fascinating collection of fourteen essays by noted critics--almost, but not quite, which is surprising, since the editor and his colleagues, who are members of the board of Insight, are certainly familiar with some of the following who have contributed substantially to twentieth-century drama: Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Grotowski, Jozef Szajna, and Janusz Wisniewski from Poland (all of whom authored scripts for their theaters); Aleksandar Popovic from Serbia (one of the truly innovative dramatists of the past century); Marin Sorescu from Romania; or Stanislav Stratiev from ...