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The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama

by: Lee A. Jacobus

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama

by: Lee A. Jacobus

ISBN 13:
9780312255954
ISBN 10:
0312255950
Edition: 4th
Format: Trade Paper
Copyright: 09/06/2000
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary

Adapted from the fourth edition of The Bedford Introduction to Drama, this abbreviated version provides students with all the features of the longer book in a briefer, less expensive format.

Preface for Instructors

iii

Introduction: Thinking about Drama

(28)

What Is Drama?

(1)

Drama and Ritual

(1)

Drama: The Illusion of Reality

(1)

Seeing a Play Onstage

(2)

Theaters and Their Effect

(1)

Reading a Play

(1)

The Great Ages of Drama

(7)

Greek Drama

(1)

Roman Drama

(1)

Medieval Drama

(1)

Renaissance Drama

(1)

Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama

(1)

Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Century

(1)

Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

(1)

Contemporary Drama

(1)

Genres of Drama

(2)

Tragedy

(1)

Comedy

(1)

Tragicomedy

(1)

Elements of Drama

(6)

Plot

(1)

Characterization

(1)

Setting

(1)

Dialogue

(1)

Music

(1)

Movement

(1)

Theme

(2)

Lady Gregory

(2)

The Rising of the Moon

(6)

Greek Drama

(100)

Origins of Greek Drama

(2)

The Greek and Their Gods

(1)

The Greek Stage

(1)

Genres of Greek Drama

(4)

Tragedy

(3)

Satyr Plays

(1)

Comedy

(1)

The Great Age of Greek Drama

(2)

Greek Drama Timeline

(2)

Sophocles

(1)

Oedipus Rex

(25)

Dudley Fitts

Robert Fitzgerald

Oedipus Rex in Performance

(23)

Commentaries on Oedipus Rex

Poetics: Comedy and Epic and Tragedy

(6)

Aristotle

The Oedipus Complex

(3)

Sigmund Freud

From The Structural Study of Myth

(3)

Claude Levi-Strauss

Antigone

(20)

Dudley Fitts

Robert Fitzgerald

Antigone in Performance

(19)

Commentaries on Antigone

Emotion and Meaning in Greek Tragedy

(1)

Oliver Taplin

From Antigone

(7)

Jean Anouilh

Aristophanes

105

(1)

Lysistrata

106

(21)

Dudley Fitts

Lysistrata in Performance

108

(19)

Commentary on Aristophanes

Review of Lysistrata

127

(2)

Brooks Atkinson

Roman Drama

129

(16)

Indigenous Sources

129

(1)

The Greek Influence

130

(1)

The Roman Stage

131

(2)

Roman Drama Timeline

133

(3)

Roman Dramatists

136

(9)

Plautus, Excerpt from The Twin Menaechmi (Act III)

136

(3)

Terence, Excerpt from The Brothers (Act V)

139

(4)

Seneca, Excerpt from Thyestes (Act V, Scene ii)

143

(2)

Medieval Drama

145

(35)

The Role of the Church

145

(1)

Miracle Plays

146

(1)

Mystery Plays

147

(1)

Morality Plays

148

(1)

The Medieval Stage

149

(1)

The Actors

150

(1)

Medieval Drama Timeline

151

(3)

Hrosvitha

154

(1)

Dulcitius

155

(4)

K. M. Wilson

Dulcitius in Performance

156

(3)

Commentaries on Hrosvitha

Reading Hrotsvit's Tormented Bodies

159

(1)

Marla Carlson

Re-viewing Hrotsvit

160

(7)

Sue-Ellen Case

Everyman

167

(13)

Everyman in Performance

168

(12)

Renaissance Drama

180

(146)

Italian Drama

180

(4)

Vitruvius and the Rediscovery of Roman Design

181

(1)

Commedia dell' Arte

182

(2)

Elizabethan Drama

184

(4)

The First Professional Companies

185

(1)

The Elizabethan Theater

185

(1)

The Elizabethan Audience

185

(2)

Female Characters on the English Stage

187

(1)

The Masque

187

(1)

Spanish Drama

188

(1)

Renaissance Drama Timeline

189

(3)

William Shakespeare

192

(2)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

194

(33)

A Midsummer Night's Dream in Performance

195

(32)

Commentaries on A Midsummer Night's Dream

Masque Elements in A Midsummer Night's Dream

227

(1)

Enid Welsford

On A Midsummer Night's Dream

228

(2)

Linda Bamber

The Play Is the Message

230

(3)

Peter Brook

Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream

233

(3)

Clive Barnes

Othello

236

(45)

Othello in Performance

238

(43)

Commentaries on Othello

Othello's Character

281

(7)

A. C. Bradley

Macready's Othello

288

(4)

Virginia Mason Vaughan

Going It Alone: A Review of Olivier's Othello

292

(2)

John Holstrom

A Cultural Casebook

The Issue of Race and Othello

294

(2)

From Mandeville's Travels

296

(2)

Sir John Mandeville

From Decades of the New World

298

(1)

Richard Eden

From A Geographical Historie of Africa

299

(3)

Leo Africanus

John Pory

From ``Othello and Color Prejudice''

302

(7)

G. K. Hunter

Shakespeare without Tears

309

(2)

Margaret Webster

Review of Patrick Stewart as Othello

311

(2)

Peter Marks

Ben Jonson

313

(1)

The Masque of Blackness

314

(7)

The Masque of Blackness in Performance

315

(6)

Commentary on Jonson

Africa in English Masque and Pageantry

321

(5)

Eldred Jones

Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Drama

326

(35)

The Restoration: Rebirth of Drama

326

(1)

Theater on the Continent: Neoclassicism

326

(2)

French Comedy: Moliere

327

(1)

Theater in England: Restoration Comedy of Manners

328

(4)

Eighteenth-Century Drama

330

(2)

Late Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Drama Timeline

332

(3)

Moliere

335

(1)

The Misanthrope

336

(22)

Richard Wilbur

The Misanthrope in Performance

337

(21)

Commentary on Moliere

Alceste's Love for Celimene

358

(3)

Lionel Gossman

Nineteenth-Century Drama through the Turn of the Century

361

(140)

Technical Innovations

361

(1)

Romantic Drama

361

(2)

Melodrama

363

(2)

The Well-Made Play

365

(1)

The Rise of Realism

366

(3)

Nineteenth-Century Drama Timeline

369

(3)

Henrik Ibsen

372

(2)

A Doll House

374

(33)

Rolf Fjelde

A Doll House in Performance

376

(31)

Commentaries on A Doll House

Notes for the Modern Tragedy

407

(1)

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll's House

408

(2)

Bernard Shaw

A Doll's House: Ibsen the Moralist

410

(4)

Muriel C. Bradbrook

August Strindberg

414

(1)

Miss Julie

415

(17)

Harry G. Carlson

Miss Julie in Performance

416

(16)

Commentary on Strindberg

From the Preface to Miss Julie

432

(2)

August Strindberg

Oscar Wilde

434

(1)

The Importance of Being Earnest

435

(27)

The Importance of Being Earnest in Performance

436

(26)

Commentaries on Wilde

An Unpublished Letter from Oscar Wilde on The Importance of Being Earnest

462

(4)

Peter Raby

The Origins of The Importance of Being Earnest

466

(4)

Peter Raby

Anton Chekhov

470

(1)

The Cherry Orchard

471

(23)

Ann Dunnigan

The Cherry Orchard in Performance

472

(22)

Commentaries on Chekhov

From Letters of Anton Chekhov

494

(2)

Anton Chekhov

From Recollections

496

(1)

Maxim Gorky

On The Cherry Orchard

497

(1)

Virginia Woolf

Review of The Cherry Orchard

497

(2)

John Corbin

On Chekhov

499

(2)

Peter Brook

Drama in the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century

501

(285)

The Heritage of Realism

501

(1)

Realism and Myth

502

(1)

Myth and Culture

502

(1)

Poetic Realism

502

(1)

Social Realism

503

(1)

Realism and Expressionism

504

(1)

Antirealism

505

(1)

Epic Theater

506

(1)

Absurdist Drama

507

(1)

Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Drama Timeline

508

(4)

Susan Glaspell

512

(1)

Trifles

513

(7)

Trifles in Performance

514

(6)

Commentary on Glaspell

On the Edge: The Plays of Susan Glaspell

520

(2)

Christine Dymkowski

Luigi Pirandello

522

(1)

Six Characters in Search of an Author

523

(23)

Edward Storer

Six Characters in Search of an Author in Performance

524

(22)

Commentary on Pirandello

Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author

546

(2)

John Corbin

Eugene O'Neill

548

(1)

Desire Under the Elms

549

(25)

Desire under the Elms in Performance

550

(24)

Commentary on O'Neill

Review of Desire under the Elms

574

(2)

Stark Young

Bertolt Brecht

576

(1)

Mother Courage

577

(31)

John Willett

Mother Courage in Performance

579

(29)

Commentaries on Brecht

The Alienation Effect

608

(4)

Bertolt Brecht

Notes for Mother Courage, Scene 12

612

(4)

Bertolt Brecht

Tennessee Williams

616

(1)

The Glass Menagerie

617

(31)

The Glass Menagerie in Performance

618

(30)

Commentaries on The Glass Menagerie

Review of The Glass Menagerie

648

(1)

Lewis Nichols

Laurette Taylor in The Glass Menagerie

649

(2)

Donald Spoto

Problems in The Glass Menagerie

651

(4)

Benjamin Nelson

Arthur Miller

655

(1)

Death of A Salesman

656

(41)

Death of a Salesman in Performance

658

(39)

Commentaries on Miller

In Memoriam

697

(2)

Arthur Miller

Tragedy and the Common Man

699

(3)

Arthur Miller

A Salesman Who Transcends Time

702

(3)

Michiko Kakutani

Death of a Salesman: The Design Process

705

(4)

Brenda Murphy

Samuel Beckett

709

(1)

Endgame

710

(30)

Endgame in Performance

712

(28)

Commentaries on Beckett

The Theater of the Absurd

740

(2)

Martin Esslin

The Ending of Endgame

742

(3)

Sidney Homan

Lorraine Hansberry

745

(1)

A Raisin in the Sun

746

(38)

A Raisin in the Sun in Performance

747

(37)

Commentary on Hansberry

Review of A Raisin in the Sun

784

(2)

Brooks Atkinson

Contemporary Drama

786

(145)

Experimentation

786

(5)

Theater of Cruelty

786

(1)

Environmental Theater

787

(1)

``Poor Theater''

787

(1)

Theater of Images

788

(1)

Gay and Lesbian Theater and Other New Ensembles

788

(2)

Experiments with Theater Space

790

(1)

Experimentation within the Tradition

791

(4)

Contemporary Drama Timeline

795

(4)

Athol Fugard

799

(1)

``Master Harold'' ... And the Boys

800

(20)

``Master Harold'' ... and the boys in Performance

801

(19)

Commentaries on Fugard

Interview with Athol Fugard

820

(2)

Heinrich von Staden

From Notebooks 1960-1977

822

(2)

Athol Fugard

August Wilson

824

(2)

Fences

826

(30)

Fences in Performance

827

(29)

Commentaries on Wilson

Interview with August Wilson

856

(2)

David Savran

Review of Fences

858

(3)

Frank Rich

Yasmina Reza

861

(1)

``Art''

861

(20)

Christopher Hampton

``Art'' in Performance

862

(19)

Commentary on Reza

What Is ``Art''?

881

(4)

Louis Menand

Paula Vogel

885

(1)

How I Learned to Drive

886

(23)

How I Learned to Drive in Performance

886

(23)

Commentaries on Vogel

Coast to Coast with Paula Vogel

909

(5)

Caridad Svich

Peter Franklin

Paula Vogel

914

(2)

David Savran

Review of How I Learned to Drive

916

(3)

Jill Dolan

Appendices

Writing About Drama

919

(12)

Why Write about Drama?

919

(1)

Conventions in Writing Criticism about Drama

919

(1)

Approaches to Criticism

920

(1)

Reader Response Criticism

920

(1)

Close Reading

921

(1)

From Prewriting to Final Draft: A Sample Essay on The Rising of the Moon

922

(5)

How to Write a Review

927

(1)

What Is the Purpose of a Review?

927

(1)

What You Need to Write a Good Review

927

(1)

Preparing to Review a Classic Play

928

(1)

Preparing to Review a New Play

928

(1)

Guidelines for Writing Reviews

929

(1)

Sample Reviews

929

(2)

Glossary of Dramatic Terms

931

(8)

Selected Bibliography

939

(17)

Selected List of Film, Video, and Audiocassette Resources

956

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