The moral dilemma of the scientist in modern drama : the inmost force
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The moral dilemma of the scientist in modern drama : the inmost force
(Symposium series, v. 38)
Edwin Mellen Press, c1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-213) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study includes chapters on European, American and British drama, and bibliographic reference to many other plays about scientists. While it is based on study of the original texts, it employs citations from English translations to make the material accessible to the English-speaking reader. Because of the continued relevance of the topic and the background information that introduces each play and puts it in a literary-historical context, this work should appeal to both scholars and students, readers and theatregoers. Another contribution of the book is its analysis of the social issues and literary themes that emerge from modern society's encounter with science and technology. It focuses on the moral dilemmas of the scientist and society but goes beyond the political and ethical discussion of atomic weapons that dominates most other studies. The plays discussed explore scientific experimentation with human subjects, utopian social science, the threat of irresponsible engineering and technology, creationism versus evolution, and the abuses of psychiatry.
Dramas studied include: Goethe's "Faust" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"; Bnchner's "Woyzeck"; Hauptmann's "Before Daybreak"; Kaiser's "Gastrilogy"; Brecht's "A Man's a Man", "The Ocean Flight/The Baden Didactic Play of Agreement", and "Life of Galileo"; Kipphardt's "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer"; Dnrrenmatt's "The Physicists"; Lawrence and Lee's "Inherit the Wind"; and Barnes' "The Ruling Class".
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