TY - BOOK ID - 77876931 TI - The vital lie: reality and illusion in modern drama PY - 1989 SN - 0817382534 9780817382537 9780817303969 0817303960 0817312021 9780817312022 0817303960 9780817312022 PB - Tuscaloosa, Ala University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Illusion in literature. KW - Reality in literature. KW - Drama KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature KW - anno 1800-1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876931 AB - The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. ER -