Is the Theatre Still Dying?

Eric Salmon contends that modern theatre is artistically endangered. This book is his evaluation of the present state of English-speaking theatre and an examination through examples of twentieth-century plays both good and bad of the reasons for it. Salmon''s method is critical-argumentative. He is as much concerned with staging methods and playing as with the plays themselves though he regards the playwright as the primary artist in the theatre and the actor as an interpretor.