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Preface for Instructors
Introduction: Thinking about Drama
What Is Drama?
Drama and Ritual
Drama: The Illusion of Reality
Seeing a Play Onstage
Theaters and Their Effect
Reading a Play
The Great Ages of Drama
Greek Drama
Roman Drama
Medieval Drama
Renaissance Drama
Late Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
Contemporary Drama
Genres of Drama
Tragedy
Comedy
Tragicomedy
Elements of Drama
Plot
Characterization
Setting
Dialogue
Music
Movement
Theme
Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon
Greek Drama
Origins of Greek Drama
The Greeks and Their Gods
The Greek Stage
*The Greek Actor
Genres of Greek Drama
Tragedy
Satyr Plays
Comedy
The Great Age of Greek Drama
Greek Drama Timeline
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald)
Oedipus Rex in Performance
Commentaries on Oedipus Rex
Aristotle, Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy
Sigmund Freud, The Oedipus Complex
Claude Lévi-Strauss, From The Structural Study of Myth
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Translated by Dudley Fitts)
Lysistrata in Performance
Roman Drama
Indigenous Sources
The Greek Influence
The Roman Stage
*The Roman Actor
Roman Drama Timeline
Roman Dramatists
Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)
Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)
Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii)
Medieval Drama
The Role of the Church
Miracle Plays
Mystery Plays
Morality Plays
The Medieval Stage
*The Medieval Actor
Medieval Drama Timeline
Hrosvitha, Dulcitius (Translated by K.M. Wilson)
Dulcitius in Performance
Commentary on Hrosvitha
Sue-Ellen Case, Re-viewing Hrotsvit
Anonymous, Everyman (Edited by A.C. Cawley)
Everyman in Performance
Renaissance Drama
Italian Drama
The Italian Theater
Commedia dell’Arte
Elizabethan Drama
The Elizabethan Theater
* The Elizabethan Actor
The Elizabethan Audience
Female Characters on the English Stage
The Masque
Spanish Drama
Renaissance Drama Timeline
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Performance
Commentaries on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Linda Bamber, On A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Peter Brook, The Play is a Message…
Clive Barnes, Review of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare, Othello
Othello in Performance
Commentaries on Othello
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Macready’s Othello
Margaret Webster, Shakespeare without Tears
Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness
The Masque of Blackness in Performance
Commentary on Jonson
Eldred Jones, Africa in English Masque and Pageantry
Late Seventeenth-and-Eighteenth Century Drama
The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama
Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism
French Comedy: Moliere
*Theater in England: The Restoration
Restoration Comedy in England
Eighteenth-Century Drama
* The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Actor
Drama in Japan
Late Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Drama Timeline
* Moliere, Tartuffe (Translated by Richard Wilbur)
Tartuffe in Performance
Commentary on Moliere
* Mel Gussow, Review of ‘Tartuffe’
* Aphra Behn, The Rover; Or, The Banished Cavaliers
The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers in Performance
Commentaries on Behn
* Elaine Hobby, Courtship and Marriage in The Rover
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki in Performance
Commentary on Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Donald H. Shiveley, The Development of Theater Buildings
Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Twentieth Century
The Nineteenth Century Theater
* The Nineteenth-Century Actor
Romantic Drama
Melodrama
The Well-Made Play
The Rise of Realism
Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House (Translated by Rolf Fjelde)
A Doll House in Performance
Commentaries on A Doll House
Henrik Ibsen, Notes for the Modern Tragedy
Muriel C. Bradbrook, A Doll’s House: Ibsen the Moralist
August Strindberg, Miss Julie (Translated by Harry G. Carlson)
Miss Julie in Performance
Commentary on Strindberg
August Strindberg, From the Preface to Miss Julie
* A STYLISTIC CASEBOOK
American Melodrama
Anna Cora Mowatt, Fashion (Act V)
George L. Aiken, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Act VI)
Bronson Howard, Shenandoah (Act III)
Dion Boucicault, Notes on Acting
Gary A. Richardson, Melodrama as National History
Michael R. Booth, A Defense of Nineteenth-Century Drama
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
The Importance of Being Earnest in Performance
Commentary on Wilde
* Joseph Donohue, Interview with Sir Peter Hall, director of The Importance of Being Earnest
Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard in Performance
Commentaries on Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, From Letters of Anton Chekhov
Peter Brook, On Chekhov
Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century
The Heritage of Realism
Realism and Myth
Myth and Culture
Poetic Realism
Social Realism
Realism and Expressionism
Antirealism
Epic Theater
Absurdist Drama
* The Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Stage
* The Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Actor
Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Drama Timeline
Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Translated by Edward Storer)
Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance
Eugene O’Neill, Desire Under the Elms
Desire Under the Elms in Performance
Commentary on O’Neill
* Louise Kennedy, "‘He knows that it's OK not to know’: Director János Szász approaches ‘Desire’ with an open mind"
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years’ War (Translated by John Willett)
Mother Courage in Performance
Commentaries on Brecht
Bertolt Brecht, The Alienation Effect
Bertolt Brecht, Notes for Mother Courage, Scene 12
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie in Performance
Commentaries on The Glass Menagerie
Lewis Nichols, Review of The Glass Menagerie
Donald Spoto, Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie
Benjamin Nelson, Problems in The Glass Menagerie
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem
Death of a Salesman in Performance
Commentaries on Miller
Arthur Miller, In Memoriam
Arthur Miller, Tragedy and the Common Man
*A PRODUCTION CASEBOOK
Death of a Salesman
Jo Mielziner, Designing a Play: Death of a Salesman
Brenda Murphy, Death of a Salesman: The Design Process
Brenda Murphy, Racial Consciousness in Casting Death of a Salesman
Elia Kazan, Directing Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller, Casting Death of a Salesman
June Schlueter and James K. Flanagan, Memorable Willy
Catherine Diamond, Death of a Salesman in Taipei
* Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape
Krapp’s Last Tape in Performance
Commentaries on Beckett
* Martin Esslin, The Theater of the Absurd
* Ruby Cohn, Beckett Directing
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun in Performance
Contemporary Drama
Experimentation
Theater of Cruelty
Environmental Theater
"Poor Theater"
Theater of Images
Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other
• Ensembles
Experiments with Theater Space
Experimentation within the Tradition
* The Contemporary Theater
* The Contemporary Actor
Contemporary Drama Timeline
Athol Fugard, "Master Harold" … and the boys
Master Harold …and the boys in Performance
Commentaries on Fugard
Heinrich von Staden, Interview with Athol Fugard
Athol Fugard, From Notebooks 1960-1977
August Wilson, Fences
Fences in Performance
Commentary on Fences
* Joan Herrington, The Development of Fences
* Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches in Performance
Commentary on Kushner
*Andrea Bernstein, Interview with Tony Kushner
*Caryl Churchill, Far Away
Far Away in Performance
* Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House
The Clean House in Performance
* Suzan-Lori Parks, selections from 365 Days/365 Plays
365 Days in Performance
Appendices
Writing about Drama
Why Write about Drama?
Conventions in Writing Criticism about Drama
Approaches to Criticism
Reader Response
Close Reading
From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Essay on The Rising of the Moon
How to Write a Review
What Is the Purpose of a Review?
What You Need to Write a Good Review
Preparing to Review a Classic Play
Preparing to Review a New Play
Guidelines for Writing Reviews
Sample Review
Glossary of Dramatic Terms
* new to this edition
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