Israel Horovitz: A Collection of Critical Essays in Bloomington, MN

This is the first collection of scholarly essays dedicated to an assessment of this playwright's prodigious body of work. The 13 essays—12 original and one revised and expanded for this volume—present the most timely and provocative thinking on Horovitz's canon (more than 50 plays), and address such subjects as ethnicity; violence; feminism; social commitment; the role of mythology; the influence of Aeschylus, Beckett, Ionesco, O'Neill, and Albee; and Horovitz's contribution to American drama. Also included are an interview with the playwright conducted by the editor specifically for this collection, a comprehensive chronology of his life and productions, and the most current primary and selected secondary bibliography.