Background
Lyons, Charles R. was born on April 27, 1933 in Glendale, California, United States. Son of James Grey and Daphne Mae (Burlingham) Lyons.
( This totally new and brilliant approach to the Ibsen ca...)
This totally new and brilliant approach to the Ibsen canon presents the plays as a single, cohesive exploration of the nature of consciousness. In addition, Lyons’s close reading of the seven plays reveals Ibsen’s major metaphors and demonstrates that the realistic form of nineteenth-century drama could encompass symbolism and work toward departures from realism.
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(Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist and originator of the ep...)
Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist and originator of the epic theater, is known to English-speaking people through translations of his plays and critical biographies. However, this attention is negligible because no extensive discussions of the plays have been available. Charles R. Lyons gives a close reading of seven major Brecht plays, with the purpose of illuminating the complexity of Brecht's apprehensive look at human experience. Mr. Lyons begins with the playwright's earliest dramatic composition, Baal, and concludes with his last significant play, The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
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Lyons, Charles R. was born on April 27, 1933 in Glendale, California, United States. Son of James Grey and Daphne Mae (Burlingham) Lyons.
AB, Stanford University, 1955; AM, Stanford University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1964.
Assistant professor, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, 1964-1968; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1968-1972; professor, associate dean, University of California, Berkeley, 1972-1973; professor, chairman, Stanford (California) U., 1973-1985; Margery Bailey professor english and dramatic literature, Stanford (California) U., since 1985; chairman graduate studies in drama, Stanford (California) U., 1985-1995; department chairman drama, Stanford (California) U., since 1995; chairman Arts and Technology Initiative, Stanford (California) U., since 1994. Visiting professor Washington University, St. Louis, 1966.
(Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist and originator of the ep...)
( This totally new and brilliant approach to the Ibsen ca...)
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Board of directors San Francisco Archives for Performing Arts, since 1985. Served to Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1956-1960. Member Modern Language Association, Samuel Beckett Society.
Married Leila B. Phee, December 22, 1956. Children: John Christopher, James Charles.