Poetic Drama

by Glenda Leeming

Published 1 January 1989
A work which traces the repeated attempts in the 20th century to write poetic drama - plays with dialogue in formal verse and with other poetic qualities. She examines such writers as Yeats, Eliot and Christopher Fry and also discusses the validity of their theories about theatre practice. Glenda Leeming is author of "Wesker the Playwright".