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THE COLLECTED DRAMA OF H. L. MENCKEN
PLAYS AND CRITICISM |
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S. T. Joshi (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810883694 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810883697 |
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SCARECROW PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
7 June, 2012 |
| Pages: |
274 |
| Description: |
In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken s dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play Heliogabalus. These plays, which have never been reprinted since their original appearances in newspapers or in Mencken s early volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken s penchant for satire and ridicule. The second half of this book features a selection of Mencken s early writings (1905 17) on drama, most of which have never been reprinted. Various essays on Shakespeare, Shaw, Synge, Strindberg, Ibsen, and others exhibit Mencken s keenness as a literary critic and his understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of the drama." |
| Synopsis: |
In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken's dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play Heliogabalus. These plays, which have never been reprinted since their original appearances in newspapers or in Mencken's early volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken's penchant for satire and ridicule. The second half of this book features a selection of Mencken's early writings (1905-17) on drama, most of which have never been reprinted. Various essays on Shakespeare, Shaw, Synge, Strindberg, Ibsen, and others exhibit Mencken's keenness as a literary critic and his understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of the drama. |
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