| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xv, 1037 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Drama |
| Note |
First ed. published in 1935, edited by B. Mantle and J. Gassner. |
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Pages 1034-1037 blank for "Notes." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1029-1032). |
| Contents |
A note on the third edition -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part I. Periods of world drama. The Classic age. Introduction - The Classic age -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus ; translated by Edith Hamilton -- Oedipus the King / Sophocles ; version by John Gassner -- The Trojan women / Euripides ; translated by Richmond Lattimore -- The frogs / Aristophanes ; translated by Benjamin Bickley Rogers -- The Menaechmi / Plautus -- The brothers / Terence -- The Oriental theatre. Introduction - The Oriental theatre -- Shakuntala / Kalidasa ; translated by Sir Monier-Williams -- Sotoba Komachi / Kwanami Kiyotsugu ; translated by Arthur Waley -- The Medieval drama. Introduction - The Medieval drama -- Abraham and Isaac / [Author unknown] ; version by John Gassner -- The second shepherds' play / [Author unknown] ; version by John Gassner -- Everyman / [Author unknown] ; version by John Gassner -- The Renaissance. Introduction -- The Renaissance -- The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Hamlet / William Shakespeare -- Volpone / Ben Jonson -- The Duchess of Malfi / John Webster -- Fuente Ovejuna / Lope de Vega ; translated by Angel Flores and Muriel Kittel -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Introduction -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The misanthrope / Molière ; translated by Henri van Laun -- Phaedra / Jean Racine ; translated by Robert Henderson -- The way of the world / William Congreve -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The romantic and early realistic drama. Introduction -- The romantic and early realistic drama -- Faust, part one / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; translated by C.F. MacIntyre -- No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset ; translated by Raoul Pellissier -- Danton's death / Georg Büchner ; translated by Stephen Spender and Goronwy Rees -- The inspector / Nikolai Gogo ; translated by John Laurence Seymour and George Rapall Noyesl -- Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel ; translated by Barker Fairley -- A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev ; translated by George Rapall Noyes -- Part II. The range of the Western drama. Types and styles of Western theatre. Variant classic forms. Introduction - variant classic forms -- The searching satyrs / Sophocles ; translated by Roger Lancelyn Green -- The Bacchae / Euripides ; translated by William Arrowsmith -- Thyestes / Seneca ; translated by Ella Isabel Harris ; revised by John Gassner -- Christian drama: Saint and miracle plays. Introduction -- Christian drama: Saint and miracle plays -- Paphnutius / Hrotsvitha ; translated by Sister Mary Marguerite Butler-- The death of Pilate : a Cornish miracle play / Adapted by John Gassner -- Renaissance forms -- Introduction -- Renaissance forms -- The portrait / Flaminio Scala ; translated by Garrett H. Leverton -- The vision of delight / Ben Jonson -- The cave of Salamanca / Miguel de Cervantes ; translated by Edwin Honig -- Life is a dream / PedroCalderón de la Barca ; translated by Edward and Elizabeth Huberman -- Neoclassic variants. Introduction -- neoclassic variants -- The Cid / PierreCorneille ; translated by Wallace Fowlie -- Ballad opera and burlesque. Introduction -- ballad opera and burlesque -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- Romantic forms of drama. Introduction -- romantic forms of drama -- Mary Stuart / Schiller ; translated by Theodore H. Lustig -- Hernani / Victor Hugo ; English version by Linda Asher -- Middle class drama. Introduction -- middle class drama The London merchant / George Lillo -- The thunderstorm / Alexander Ostrovsky ; translated by Andrew MacAndrew -- Epilogue -- A representative list of plays to 1875 -- Bibliography -- About the editor. |
| Subject |
Drama -- Collections.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst00897468
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| Genre/Form |
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Collections. (OCoLC)fst01424032
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Drama.
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Scripts (Documents).
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Plays (Performed works).
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| Added Author |
Mantle, Burns, 1873-1948.
Treasury of the theatre.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gassner, John, 1903-1967. Treasury of the theatre. 3d ed. New York, Simon and Schuster; distributed by Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967] (OCoLC)768127394 |
| ISBN |
0671201379 |
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9780671201371 |
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