Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780810883697)

In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken'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's early volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken's penchant for satire and ridicule. The second half of this book features a selection of Mencken's early writings (1905-17) on drama, most of which have never been reprinted. Various essays on Shakespeare, Shaw, Synge, Strindberg, Ibsen, and others exhibit Mencken's keenness as a literary critic and his understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of the drama.


Author: S. T. Joshi
ISBN-10: 0810883694
ISBN-13: 9780810883697
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2012
Pages: 274
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2012