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COLLECTED DRAMA OF H. L. MENCKEN IBD

SCARECROW PRESS
06 / 2012
9780810883697
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Sinopsis

In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken&rsquo,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&rsquo,s early volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken&rsquo,s penchant for satire and ridicule. The second half of this book features a selection of Mencken&rsquo,s early writings (1905&ndash,17) on drama, most of which have never been reprinted. Various essays on Shakespeare, Shaw, Synge, Strindberg, Ibsen, and others exhibit Mencken&rsquo,s keenness as a literary critic and his understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of the drama.