A Maeterlinck Reader: Plays, Poems, Short Fiction, Aphorisms, and Essays by Maurice Maeterlinck Edited and Translated by David Willinger and Daniel Gerould

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Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) brought Symbolism into the theatre initiating a lineage of alternative modern drama that transformed the art form. He was also a revolutionary poet and influential essayist whose subjects included the theatre mysticism and politics. His plays have been translated and performed all over the world and made into several films and operas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. David Willinger is Professor of Theatre at City College and the Graduate Center CUNY and author of numerous books anthologies and articles on Belgian theatre and drama most recently Three Plays of Forbidden Love by Hugo Claus (2007). He is recipient of Le Prix de Rayonnement à lEtranger from the Belgian government. Daniel Gerould is the Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center CUNY and Director of Publications at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. He is editor of the journal Slavic and East European Performance and of the twelve-volume Routledge/Harwood Polish and Eastern European Theatre Archive.