The moral impulse modern drama from Ibsen to the present. - Freedman, Morris 1920- (Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 1967)
The morality of paradox: Ibsen's social plays -- Strindberg's positive nihilism -- Chekhov's morality of work -- Shaw's moral seriousness -- The modern tragicomedy of Wilde and O'Casey -- Moral perspective in Pirandello -- The morality of passion: Lorca's three tragedies -- Bertolt Brecht and American social drama -- From anger to absurdity.
Keywords: Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Didactic drama -- History and criticism; Ethics in literature