The Social Significance of Modern Drama

The Modern Drama, as all modern literature, mirrors the complex struggle of life...-Emma Goldman, in the ForewordWith her reputation as a political radical, it is often forgotten that much of Emma Goldman& 39;s activism was rooted in the arts. As a member of The Progressive Stage Society, a founding force in the experimental theater movement, and through her work as a theatrical manager herself, she moved in quite artistic circles. And in these 1914 essays, adapted from a lecture series, she turned her passionate and philosophical eye on the stage, blending social commentary and theatrical criticism as she dissects: Henrik Ibsen& 39;s A Doll& 39;s House and An Enemy of the People August Strindberg& 39;s Miss Julie and Comrades Edmond Rostand& 39;s Chantecler George Bernard Shaw& 39;s Mrs. Warren& 39;s Profession and Major Barbara William Butler Yeats& 39;s Where There Is Nothing Anton Chekhov& 39;s The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard Leonid Andreyev& 39;s King Hungerand others from Scandinavia, Germany, France, England, Ireland, and Russia who were the& 34;social iconoclasts& 34; of her time... and ours.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Anarchism and Other Essays, by Emma Goldman.Anarchist and feminist EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) is one of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Lithuania, she emigrated to the United States as a teenager, was deported in 1919 for her criticism of the U.S. military draft in World War ...