New Drama
- Anton Chekhov — Uncle Vanya
- James Herne — Sag Harbor
- George Bernard Shaw — Captain Brassbound's Conversion
- Arthur Schnitzler — La Ronde (German: Reigen)
- August Strindberg
- The Dance of Death
- Easter
Read more about this topic: 1900 In Literature
Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
—Eric Bentley (b. 1916)