A Novel Approach to Theatre from Adams to Zola

A Novel Approach to Theatre from Adams to Zola is a somewhat curious compilation. From its style the work seems to be aimed at a high‐school US‐educated public library clientele. The stylistic flavour may be judged from the opening sentences of the Introduction: “Who wrote this book? Two theatre junkies who love to read novels about the theatre and who could not find a convenient guide to the books we wanted to discover. So we wrote one”. The work is organized on apparently a “user‐friendly” foundation. Novels are arranged in eight sections: “Bio‐novels, classics, fantasies, historical novels, mysteries, romantics, westerns...