Is the Theatre Still Dying?

By Eric Salmon

Eric Salmon contends that modern theatre is artistically endangered. This book is his evaluation of the present state of English-speaking theatre and an examination, through examples of twentieth-century plays, both good and bad, of the reasons for it. Salmon's method is critical-argumentative. He is as much concerned with staging methods and playing as with the plays themselves, though he regards the playwright as the primary artist in the theatre and the actor as an interpretor.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313243255
• ISBN13: 9780313243257
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"