TY - BOOK ID - 7128397 TI - Irony and the modern theatre PY - 2011 SN - 9781107007925 9780511974830 9781139078825 1139078828 9781139081092 1139081098 0511974833 1107007925 1139064061 1107221838 128311285X 9786613112859 113907654X 1139083368 1139070827 1316632415 9781139064064 9781107221833 6613112852 9781139083362 9781139070829 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Irony in literature KW - Drama KW - History and criticism KW - Psychological aspects KW - Ironie KW - Théâtre KW - Au théâtre KW - Histoire et critique KW - Irony KW - Theater KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Au théâtre. KW - Irony in literature. KW - Criticism KW - History and criticism. KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Drama - History and criticism KW - Drama - Psychological aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7128397 AB - Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre. ER -