The Modern Drama, as all modern literature, mirrors the complex struggle of life...-Emma Goldman, in the ForewordWith her reputation as a political radical, it is often forgotten that much of Emma Goldman's activism was rooted in the arts. As a member of The Progressive Stage Society, a founding force in the experimental theater movement, and through her work as a theatrical manager herself, she moved in quite artistic circles. And in these 1914 essays, adapted from a lecture series, she turned her passionate and philosophical eye on the stage, blending social commentary and theatrical criticism as she dissects:· Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and An Enemy of the People· August Strindberg's Miss Julie and Comrades· Edmond Rostand's Chantecler· George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession and Major Barbara· William Butler Yeats's Where There Is Nothing· Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard· Leonid Andreyev's King Hungerand others from Scandinavia, Germany, France, England, Ireland, and Russia who were the "social iconoclasts" of her time... and ours.Also available from Cosimo Classics: Anarchism and Other Essays, by Emma Goldman.Anarchist and feminist EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) is one of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Lithuania, she emigrated to the United States as a teenager, was deported in 1919 for her criticism of the U.S. military draft in World War ...