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Informationen zum Autor S. T. Joshi edits the scholarly journals Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction and is the author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (2004), Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and H. L. Mencken: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by S. T. JoshiPart I. The PlaysThe Artist: A Drama without Words (1909)In the Vestry Room (1910)Seeing the World (1913)Asepsis: A Deduction in Scherzo Form (1913)Death: A Philosophical Discussion (1914)The Wedding: A Stage Direction (1915)Heliogabalus, by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (1920)Part II. Mencken on Drama "By Way of Introduction" to George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905)William Shakespeare (1910)A Drama of Ideas (1910)A Plea for Comedy (1910)Et-Dukkehjemiana (1910)The Revival of the Printed Play (1911)The New Dramatic Literature (1911)Brieux and Others (1911)The Terrible Swede (1912)Synge and Others (1912)Gerhart Hauptmann (1913)Thirty-five Printed Plays (1914)The Ulster Polonius (1916)Ibesen: Journeyman Dramatist (1917)Notes About the Editor...
