Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Irony personified: Ibsen and The Master Builder
- 2 The character of irony in Chekhov
- 3 Irony and dialectic: Shaw's Candida
- 4 Pirandello's “Father” – and Brecht's “Mother”
- 5 Absurdist irony: Ionesco's “anti-play”
- 6 “Ironist First Class”: Stoppard's Arcadia
- 7 American ironies: Wasserstein and Kushner
- 8 Irony's theatre
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Irony personified: Ibsen and The Master Builder
- 2 The character of irony in Chekhov
- 3 Irony and dialectic: Shaw's Candida
- 4 Pirandello's “Father” – and Brecht's “Mother”
- 5 Absurdist irony: Ionesco's “anti-play”
- 6 “Ironist First Class”: Stoppard's Arcadia
- 7 American ironies: Wasserstein and Kushner
- 8 Irony's theatre
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
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- Irony and the Modern Theatre , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011