| Edition |
Rev. and expanded [3d] ed. |
| Description |
xv, 1033 pages illustrations |
| Note |
First ed. published in 1935, edited by B. Mantle and J. Gassner. |
| Contents |
The classic age -- Agamemnon / Aeschylus -- Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- The Trojan women / Euripides -- The frogs / Aristophanes -- The Menaechmi / Plautus-- The brothers / Terence -- The oriental theatre -- Shakuntala / Kalidasa -- Sotoba komachi / Kwanami Kiyotsugu -- The medieval drama -- Abraham and Isaac ; The second shepherd's play ; Everyman / version by John Gassner -- 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 -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The misanthrope / Moliere -- Phaedra / Jean Racine -- The way of the world / William Congreve -- The school for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- The romantic and early realistic drama -- Faust, pt. one / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset -- Danton's death / Georg Buchner -- The inspector / Nikolai Gogol -- Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel -- A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev -- Types and styles of western theatre -- Variant classic forms -- The searching satyrs / Sophocles -- The bacchae / Euripides -- Thyestes / Seneca -- Christan drama: saint and miracle plays -- Paphnutius / Hrotsvitha -- The death of Pilate / adapted by John Gassner -- Renaissance forms -- The portrait / Flaminio Scala -- The vision of delight / Ben Jonson -- The cave of Salamanca / Miguel de Cervantes -- Life is a dream / Pedro Calderon de la Barca -- Neoclassic variants -- The Cid / Pierre Corneille -- Ballad opera and burlesque -- The beggar's opera / John Gay -- Romantic forms of drama -- Mary Stuart / Friedrich von Schiller -- Hernani / Victor Hugo -- Middle class drama -- The London merchant / George Lillo -- The thunderstorm / Alexander Ostrovsky. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1029-1032). |
| Subject |
Drama -- Collections.
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English drama -- Translations from foreign literature.
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| Added Author |
Mantle, Burns, 1873-1948.
Treasury of the theatre.
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