The Norton anthology of drama /
Offers the most generous collection of major works (33 plays in all, 4 of which are new), the most carefully prepared introductions, annotations and texts, and the handiest format of any drama anthology. The Shorter Third Edition introduces a new "critical perspective" feature that offers...
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- The plays. Oedipus the King (ca. 430-425 B.C.E.) / Sophocles ; translated by Robert Fagles
- Critical perspective: from Poetics / Aristotle
- Medea (431 B.C.E.) / Euripides ; translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien
- Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes ; translated by Jeffrey Henderson
- The martyrdom of the holy virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena (Dulcitius) (ca. 975) / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim ; translated by Katharina M. Wilson
- Snow in midsummer (13th century) / Guan Hanqing ; translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang
- Atsumori (ca. 1400) / Zeami Motokiyo ; translated by Karen Brazell
- Critical perspective: from "A mirror held to the flower" / Zeami Motokiyo
- Everyman (ca. 1510) / anonymous
- Critical perspective: from The English morality play : origins, history, and influence of a dramatic tradition / Robert Potter
- Hamlet (1600-01) / William Shakespeare
- Twelfth night; or, What you will (1600-01) / William Shakespeare
- Critical perspective: from "Preface" to Dramatick works of William Shakespeare / Samuel Johnson
- Tartuffe (1664) / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) ; versification by Constance Congdon, from a translation by Virginia Scott
- Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg ; translated by Evert Sprinchorn
- A doll house (1879) / Henrik Ibsen ; translated by Brian Johnston and Rick Davis
- Critical perspective: from The quintessence of Ibsenism / George Bernard Shaw
- The importance of being Earnest / (1895) / Oscar Wilde
- The cherry orchard (1904) / Anton Chekhov ; translated by Paul Schmidt
- Trifles (1916) / Susan Glaspell
- Six characters in search of an author (1921) / Luigi Pirandello ; translated by Eric Bentley
- The hairy ape (1922) / Eugene O'Neill
- Machinal (1928) / Sophie Treadwell
- The good woman of Setzuan (1938-40) / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Eric Bentley
- A streetcar named desire (1947) / Tennessee Williams
- Death of a salesman (1949) / Arthur Miller
- Critical perspective: from "Tragedy and the common man" / Arthur Miller
- Waiting for Godot (1953) / Samuel Beckett ; translated from the original French text by author
- Critical perspective: from The theater of the absurd / Martin Esslin
- A raisin in the sun (1959) / Lorraine Hansberry
- The homecoming (1964) / Harold Pinter
- Death and the king's horseman (1975) / Wole Soyinka
- Cloud nine (1979) / Caryl Churchill
- "MASTER HAROLD" ... and the boys (1982) / Athol Fugard
- Fences (1985) / August Wilson
- Critical perspective: from The ground on which I stand / August Wilson
- M. Butterfly (1988) / David Henry Hwang
- Angels in America, part I : Millennium approaches (1991) / Tony Kushner
- The America play (1994) / Suzan-Lori Parks
- How I learned to drive (1997) / Paula Vogel
- Ruined (2009) / Lynn Nottage.