A study of one of theatre's quietest but most radical innovators, the playwright, poet, and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck described as "the prodigal father of the Theatre of the Absurd". This work is intended for scholars and students of Maeterlinck and his theatre.

Maurice Maeterlinck has been called the 'prodigal father' of modern theatre. As Rilke put it, he shifted theatre's center of gravity, replacing action with inaction, events with the eventless, and dialogue with an expressive semantics of silence. This study, the first in over a decade, traces the development of Maeterlinck's dramatic vision of extraordinary originality and depth.

Strongly argued and extremely persuasive book