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This edition: The Great Resurgence of the Theater





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Episode Details

At the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st, change engulfed the world from social issues to the transmission of information. See how playwrights dealt with the psychological and social changes of the era. Subjects include: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Brendan Behan’s The Quare, Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, August Wilson’s Fences, Harold Pinter, and the New Wave in Theater.

  • About this series

  • From the beginnings of western democracy in ancient Greece, plays have been a part of the human experience, helping us understand ourselves and make sense of the world. This five part series, A History of Great Playwrights, hosted by William Ambrose, founder of Ambrose Video Publishing, focuses on the rich literary tradition of the theater – its plays and playwrights, including such greats as Sophocles, Terence, William Shakespeare, Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O’Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tom Stoppard. With their unique perspective of the world around them, these playwrights have added depth and meaning to the world’s great body of literature.

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