Trends in contemporary drama

The author also wishes to define the difference between modern and contemporary, using contemporary material to illus- trate contemporary trends, but.showing the vital relationship between the work of the great modern dramatists upon those writing for the contemporary stage.ithout exception all the critics who were studied accepted Ibsen as the "Pounder of the Modern Drama".There is, however.John Howard Lawson, The Theory and Practice of Playwritinir (G.P. Putnam's Sons, "flow York, i §36) , pa t .o84" a difference of opinion as to the starting point of contempo- rary drama.