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Drama
The Countess hides behind caricature to better obtain her ends. But all her moods give...
Writing Cultural Difference is a welcome addition to Canadian literary studies. The publication of this...
Camerado is a play presenting the very dramatic life and compelling thoughts of Walt Whitman,...
In this collection of absurdist one-act plays, the characters are all multiple facets of one...
Pasolini published the Manifesto for a New Theatre in Nuovi Argomenti in 1968, while preparing to direct Orgia, another of his six verse tragedies. While betraying his personal dissatisfaction with his own theatre work, the Manifesto mercilessly dissects Italian theatre into two types and exposes the presumption and uselessness of both. Later, in 1968, when his production of Orgia is met with hoots of derision, he will take the blame upon himself, saying: "My fault. I hoped to create a shift by leaping over the rules decreed by mass culture. But to do that, you have to commit yourself...
