Drama: A Pocket Anthology Book

* indicate new selections.

Introduction.

The Play’s the Thing.

Origins of Drama.

Aristotle on Tragedy.

Plot.

Characterization.

Theme.

Diction.

Spectacle.

Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions.

Film Versions: A Note.

Writing About Drama.

Drama.

Sophocles (496?-406 B. C.), Oedipus the King, trans. Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice.

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), A Doll House, trans. Rolfe Fjelde.

Susan Glaspell (1882-1948), Trifles.

*Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), The Glass Menagerie.

Arthur Miller (B. 1915), Death of a Salesman.

*Edward Albee, (B. 1928), The Sandbox.

*Athol Fugard (B. 1932), “Master Harold” . . . and the boys.

August Wilson (B. 1945), Fences.

David Ives (B. 1950), Sure Thing.

*Paula Vogel (b. 1951), How I Learned to Drive.

*Catherine Celesia Allen (B. ?), Anything for You.

Acknowledgements.

List of Critical Terms.