| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 1775 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1729-1742) and index. |
| Contents |
v. 1. Introduction. Drama and theater ; A short history of theater ; Greek theater ; Roman theater ; Classical Indian theater ; Classical Chinese theater ; Classical Japanese theater ; Medieval European theater ; Theater in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 ; English theater, 1576-1642 ; Spanish theater, 1580-1700 ; French theater, 1630-1700 ; English theater, 1660-1700 ; Eighteenth-century theater ; Romanticism and melodrama, 1800-1880 ; Modern theater, 1880-1945 ; Postwar theater, 1945-1970 ; Contemporary theater ; Reading drama, imagining theater -- Agamemnon (458 B.C.E.) / Aeschylus -- Antigone (ca. 442 B.C.E.) ; Oedipus the King (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) / Sophocles -- Medea (431 B.C.E.) ; The Bacchae (406 B.C.E.) / Euripides -- Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes -- Pseudolus (191 B.C.E.) / Titus Maccius Plautus -- The little clay cart (ca. 100-300) / Shudraka -- The martyrdom of the holy virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena (Dulcitius) (975) / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim -- Snow in midsummer (13th century) / Guan Hanqing -- Atsumori (ca. 1400) / Zeami Motokiyo -- The second shepherd's play (ca. 1475) / The Wakefield Master -- Everyman (ca. 1510) / Anonymous -- The Spanish tragedy (1587) / Thomas Kyd -- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (ca. 1588) / Christopher Marlowe --Hamlet (1600-1601) ; Twelfth Night (1600-1601) / William Shakespeare -- Volpone (1606) / Ben Jonson -- The Duchess of Malfi (1631-1614) / John Webster -- Fuenteovejuna (ca. 1614) / Lope de Vega Carpio -- Life is a dream (1636) / Pedro Calderoń de la Barca -- Tartuffe (1664) / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) -- The country wife (1675) / William Wycherley -- The Rover (1677) / Aphra Behn -- Phèdre (1677) / Jean Racine -- Loa to the mystery play The divine Narcissus / Sor Juana Ineś de la Cruz -- The school for scandal (1777) / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- Faust, Part 1 (1808) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. |
| Subject |
Drama -- Collections.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst00897468
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| Genre/Form |
Collections. (OCoLC)fst01424032
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| Added Author |
Gainor, J. Ellen, editor.
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Garner, Stanton B., 1955- editor.
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Puchner, Martin, 1969- editor.
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| Added Title |
Norton anthology of drama. Antiquity through the eighteenth century |
| ISBN |
9780393283471 (paperback) |
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039328347X (paperback) |
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