Metatheater and Modernity

Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque. It refines and probes these concepts through close analyses and comparisons of seventeenth with twentieth-century plays. Authors discussed include Rotrou, Sartre, Genet, Corneille, Kushner, Bernini, Shakespeare, Pirandello, Stoppard, Molière, Giraudoux, Ionesco.