The Modern Monologue

The great playwrights of the British, American and European theatre - and the plays most constantly performed are represented in this unique collection. Playwrights include: Ayckbourn, Bond, Beckett, Berkoff, Brecht, Coward, Fugard, Genet, Ionesco, Jarry, Miller, O'Neill, Orton, Osborne, Sartre, Shaw, Stoppard and Tennessee Williams plus many more.

A fuller appreciation of each speech is enhanced by the editors' introductions and commentaries that set the plays and individual speeches in their dramatic and performance contexts.

Author: Michael Earley
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 01/28/1993
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 7.78h x 4.98w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780413672100

About the Author

Michael Earley is a Producer with the BBC Radio Drama Department and has been a literary manager for various professional theatre companies. He was Chairman of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University and taught acting, drama and playwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Juilliard, Smith College and various other schools and universities in America and Britain.,
Philippa Keil is a writer, editor and translator who trained at the Yale School of Drama. She graduated from Sussex University where she acted, directed and produced plays for the Frontdoor Theatre, and then worked professionally in London at Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre.