Much has been made of the gains of the multicultural reconstruction of the canon of world drama, but what about the works that have been abandoned to make room for the new ones? Lost Masterpieces of Euro-American Drama brings together ten plays that have been dropped from the major anthologies of world drama over the past twenty years, in order to examine the consequences of the new canonization for our understanding of the development of dramatic form. Those plays are Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters (1743), Musset's No Trifling with Love (1834), Gogol's The Inspector General (1836), Hebbel's Maria Magdalene (1844), Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness (1886), Yeats's The Countess Cathleen (1892), Wedekind's Earth Spirit (1895), Capek's R.U.R. (1920), Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page (1928), and Sartre's No Exit (1944). "Bert Cardullo's scholarship is rigorous, thoroughly well-grounded, and thoroughly professional. His contribution to dramatic literature and criticism in Lost...

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