1959 in Literature - New Drama

New Drama

  • Edward Albee - The Death of Bessie Smith (written)
  • Jean Anouilh - Becket
  • John Arden - Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
  • Samuel Beckett - Embers (first broadcast)
  • Bertolt Brecht - Saint Joan of the Stockyards (first performed)
  • Albert Camus - The Possessed
  • Jean Genet - The Blacks (first performed)
  • Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun
  • Eugène Ionesco - The Killer
  • Judith Malina - The Connection
  • Harold Pinter - The Caretaker (first published)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre - The Condemned of Altona
  • N. F. Simpson - One Way Pendulum
  • Arnold Wesker - Roots and The Kitchen
  • Tennessee Williams - Sweet Bird of Youth

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