Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett

This study provides a European perspective on the drama of Yeats and of the Irish playwrights – Wilde and Synge, O''Casey and Beckett – who share in the achievement of creating a modern ''drama of the interior''. Professor Worth traces in particular the influence of Maeterlinck, examining his ''static drama'' in some detail. A dominant theme is the importance of total theatre techniques to the pla...