The Wadsworth anthology of drama / [edited by] W.B. Worthen.
Contributor(s): Worthen, William B
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BookPublisher: Boston, Mass. ; London : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004Edition: 4th ed.Description: xii, 1716 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0838407501 (pbk.) :; 9780838407509.Uniform titles: Harcourt Brace anthology of drama. Subject(s): Drama -- Collections | Linguistics | Theatre studies | Plays, playscripts | LiteratureDDC classification: 808.82 WAD | 808.82 Summary: Offering many different perspectives on drama, this introductory text provides a comprehensive coverage of world theatre, American theatre, & modern European theatre, including a chapter devoted to classical Japanese drama.
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Known through three editions as the boldest and most distinguished introduction to drama, William Worthen's pace-setting text continues to provide exciting plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.
Rev. ed. of: The Harcourt Brace anthology of drama. 3rd ed.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references (p. 1685-1704) and index.
Offering many different perspectives on drama, this introductory text provides a comprehensive coverage of world theatre, American theatre, & modern European theatre, including a chapter devoted to classical Japanese drama.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: Drama, Theater, and Culture
- Reading Drama and Seeing Theater
- Drama and Theater in History
- Dramatic Genres
- Dramatic Form
- The Stage in Critical Practice
- Reading the Material Theatre
- 1 Classical Athens
- Aside: Roman Drama and Theater
- Reading the Material Theater: Pronomos Painter
- Aeschylus, The Orestia
- Sophocles, Oedipus the King
- Euripides, Medea
- Aristophanes, Lysistrata
- Critical Contexts: Aristotle, from The Poetics
- Critical Perspectives: Sue-Ellen Case, from Classic Drag: the Greek Creation of Female Parts
- 2 Classical Japan
- Aside: Sanskrit Drama and Theater
- Reading the Material Theater: A Portrait of Seki Sanjuro II
- Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, Matsukaze
- Nakamura Matagoro II and James R
- Brandon, adaptors, Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai
- Critical Contexts: Zeami Motokiyo, from A Mirror Held to the Flower
- Critical Perspectives: Graham Ley, Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse
- 3 Medieval And Renaissance England
- Aside: The Jacobean Court Masque
- Reading the Material Theater: Titus Andronicus title page
- Anonymous, The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Pageant
- Anonymous, Everyman
- Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- Critical Contexts: Sir Philip Sidney, from Apology for Poetry
- Critical Perspectives: Phyllis Rackin, Misogyny is Everywhere
- 4 Early Modern Europe
- Aside: Commedia Dell' Arte
- Reading the Material Theater: Betterton's acting style
- Pedro Calder?n de la Barca, Life Is a Dream
- Moli?re, Tartuffe
- Jean Racine, Phaedra
- Aphra Behn, The Rover
- Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, Loa to The Divine Narcissus
- Critical Contexts: John Dryden, Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy
- Critical Perspectives: Katharine Eisaman Maus, from 'Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress
- 5 Modern Europe
- Aside: Melodrama
- Reading the Material Theater: Ibsen's Notes for the Modern Tragedy
- Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
- August Strindberg, Miss Julie
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of being Earnest
- Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
- Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
- Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters In Search of an Author
- Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
- Jean Genet, The Balcony
- Samuel Beckett, Endgame
- Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
- Heiner M?ller, Hamletmachine
- Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine
- Sarah Kane, Blasted
- David Hare, Stuff Happens
- Critical Contexts: Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Birth of Tragedy
- ?mile Zola, from Naturalism in the Theatre
- Constantin Stanislavski, from "Direction and Acting"
- Bertolt Brecht, "Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction"
- Antonin Artaud, from The Theater and Its Double
- Augusto Boal, from Theater of the Oppressed
- Critical Perspectives: Martin Esslin, from The Theatre of the Absurd
- Fredric Jameson, from "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
- Una Chaudhuri, from Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama
- 6 The United States
- Aside: The Federal Theater Project
- Aside: Performance Art
- Reading the Material Theater: "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell
- Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon
- Susan Glaspell, Trifles
- Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape
- Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
- *Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
- Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, Dutchman
- Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit
- Sam Shepard, True West
- August Wilson, Fences
- David Henry Hwang, M
- Butterfly
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America,
- Part 1 Milennium Approaches
- Anna Deavere Smith, Fires In the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities
- Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
- Critical Contexts: Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man
- Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, "The Revolutionary Theatre"
- Critical perspectives: August Wilson, The Ground on Which I Stand
- Robert Brustein, Subsidized Separatism
- 7 World Stages
- Aside: Intercultural Performance
- Reading the Material Theater: Program Notes for Translations
- Aim? C?saire, A Tempest
- Griselda Gambaro, Information for Foreigners
- Wole Soyinka, Death and the King's Horseman
- Brian Friel, Translations
- Athol Fugard, "Master Harold"
- and the boys
- Louis Nowra, The Golden Age
- Gao Xingjian, The Other Shore
- Vaclev Havel, Temptation
- Tomson Highway, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
- Manjula Padmanabhan, Harvest
- Vassily Sigarev, Black Milk
- Critical Contexts: Frantz Fanon, from "The Fact of Blackness Critical Perspectives: Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins, from Post-Colonial Drama
- Glossary List of Illustrations and Photographs
- Index