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"This collection of plays contains about 50 plays, half of which are contemporary. This edition includes seven more plays than previous editions, as well as expanding the 20th-century coverage to include Anna Deveare Smith's ""Fires in the Mirror"", and Tony Kushner's ""Angels in America"". The text anthology (Part II) is divided into nine historical periods that sketch the historical and cultural context of the plays. For further reference, a listing of bibliographic and video resources that covers each author/play is included at the end of the text. The introduction (Part I) has been revised and ""My Brazil"", by Rachel Rosenthal, is included. Photo essays give students an opportunity to see visual illustrations of a variety of dramatic subjects. This text asks students to think critically about drama performed on the stage as well as on the page."

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Author:   Sylvan Barnet ,  William Burto ,  Lesley Ferris ,  Gerald Rabkin
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   8th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 25.30cm , Height: 5.60cm , Length: 20.40cm
Weight:   2.716kg
ISBN:  

9780321065063

ISBN 10:   0321065069
Pages:   1584
Publication Date:   15 January 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. GETTING STARTED. What is Drama? Whom Do You Seek (Quem Quaeritis?), Anonymous. Mistakes, Conflicts, and Audience-Awareness. Plot, Character, Theme. In Brief: How To Read a Play. Trifles, Susan Glaspell. A Second Short Play For Study: A Performer-Generated Script. My Brazil: A Recital. Rachel Rosenthal. Some Kinds of Drama II. A COLLECTION OF PLAYS. Classical Greek Theater: With a Note on Roman Drama. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles. Antigone, Sophocles. Medea, Euripedes. Lysistrata, Aristophanes. Medieval Theater: England and Japan. The Second Shepherds' Play, The Wakefield Master. Everyman, Anonymous. Dojoji, Anonymous. English Renaissance Theater. Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe. A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare. Seventeenth-Century Drama: England and the Continent. Fuente Ovejuna, Lope de Vega. The Cid: A Tragedy, Pierre Corneille. The Insane Asylum: A Commedia dell'arte Scenario, Anonymous. Tartuffe, Moliere. The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers Aphra Behn. Classic Modern Drama. A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen. Miss Julie, August Strindberg. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Oscar Wilde. The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekhov. Major Barbara, Bernard Shaw. American Theater Comes of Age. The Emperor Jones, Eugene O'Neill. Machinal, Sophie Treadwell. Waiting for Lefty, Clifford Odets. The Mother of Us All, Gertrude Stein. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller. The American Musical. Gypsy: A Musical, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne. Suddenly Last Summer, Tennessee Williams. The Sandbox, Edward Albee. African American Theater. Funnyhouse of a Negro, Adrienne Kennedy. Hispanic American Theater. Los Vendidos, Luis Valdez The World Stage in the Twentieth Century.Women's Theater. Votes for Women, Elizabeth Robins. Purgatory, William Butler Yeats. The Good Woman of Setzuan, Bertolt Brecht. The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter. Krapp's Last Tape: A Play in One Act, Samuel Beckett. The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, Wole Soyinka. We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay! Dario Fo. Pantomime, Derek Walcott. Top Girls, Caryl Churchill. The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard. Contemporary American Visions. True West, Sam Shepard Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet Terminal, Susan Yankowitz and Joseph Chaikin. Asian American Theater. The Dance and the Railroad, David Henry Hwang. Fences, August Wilson. The Conduct of Life, Maria Irene Fornes. Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deveare Smith. Angels in America, Part I: The Millennium Approaches, Tony Kushner. In the Blood, Suzan-Lori Parks. III. WRITING ABOUT DRAMA. Writing About Drama? Basic Matters. Writing about a Film Based on a Play. A Sample Student Essay, Using Sources: The Women in Death of a Salesman. Using Electronic Sources. A Glossary of Dramatic Terms. Bibliography. List of Video Resources. Acknowledgments. Index of Authors and Titles.

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