Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

ARNOLD ARONSON Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada HERBERT BLAU Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities at the University o ...