| Edition |
Fifth edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 1731 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Reading and witnessing a play -- Classical theater -- Medieval theater -- Renaissance English theater -- Neoclassical theater -- Modern theater -- Contemporary theater -- Ideas of drama : classical to contemporary |
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The plays: Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus Rex / Sophocles -- The Bacchae / Euripides -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- A funny thing happened on the way to the wedding (casina) / Plautus -- The second shepherds' play / The Wakefield Master -- Everyman / Anonymous -- The tragical history of the life and death of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Much ado about nothing ; The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Volpone, or The foxe / Ben Jonson -- The misanthrope / Molière -- The rover / Aphra Behn -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Woyzeck / Georg Büchner -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen -- Miss Julie / August Strindberg -- The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- In the shadow of the glen / John Millington Synge -- The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov -- Pygmalion / Bernard Shaw -- Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello -- Homecoming / Eugene O'Neill |
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The house of Bernarda Alba / Federico García Lorca -- Galileo / Bertolt Brecht -- Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller -- Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams -- The lesson / Eugène Ionesco -- Endgame / Samuel Beckett -- The zoo story / Edward Albee -- A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry -- Dutchman / Amiri Baraka -- Landscape / Harold Pinter -- Absurd person singular / Alan Ayckbourn -- Death and the King's horseman / Wole Soyinka -- Pantomime / Derek Walcott -- Translations / Brian Friel -- "Master Harold"-- and the boys / Athol Fugard -- Top girls / Caryl Churchill -- 'night mother / Marsha Norman -- Fences / August Wilson -- M. Butterfly / David Henry Hwang -- Shadow of a man / Cherríe Moraga -- Oleanna / David Mamet -- Angels in America : millennium approaches / Tony Kushner -- Arcadia / Tom Stoppard -- "Art" / Yasmina Reza -- How I learned to drive / Paula Vogel -- In the blood / Suzan-Lori Parks. |
| Subject |
Drama -- Collections.
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| Added Author |
Klaus, Carl H.
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Gilbert, Miriam.
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Field, Bradford S.
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| ISBN |
031239733X |
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9780312397333 |
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