Drama A Pocket Anthology (Penguin Academics Series)
ISBN: 9780205032167 | 0205032168
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/24/2011
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A nice alternative to lengthier and more expense anthologies, Drama: A Pocket Anthology is the perfect choice for professors who want to see several books in an Introduction to Drama course. Chronologically organized, changes to the new edition include: Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning comedy The God of Carnage , produced on Broadway with a cast including James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels, reflects the robust strength of today's Broadway and of contemporary comedy. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night brings a classic comedy to this collection for the first time.
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Play's the Thing | p. 1 |
| Origins of Drama | p. 3 |
| Aristotie on Tragedy | p. 5 |
| Plot | p. 7 |
| Characterization | p. 10 |
| Theme | p. 12 |
| Diction | p. 13 |
| Melody | p. 15 |
| Spectacle | p. 16 |
| Brief History and Description of Dramatic Conventions | p. ... MORE |
| Writing About Drama | p. 25 |
| Drama | p. 33 |
| Sophocles(496? - 406 B.C.) Antigone, translated | p. 35 |
| Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, edited | p. 83 |
| An Enemy of the People, adapted | p. 166 |
| Trifles | p. 237 |
| The Glass Menagerie | p. 251 |
| The Sandbox | p. 312 |
| "Master Harold". . . and the boys | p. 319 |
| The Piano Lesson | p. 362 |
| Sure Thing | p. 443 |
| The Cuban Swimmer | p. 454 |
| The God of Carmage, translated | p. 469 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 515 |
| Index of Critical Terms | p. 517 |
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R. S. Gwynn has edited several other books, including Fiction: A Pocket Anthology; Poetry: A Pocket Anthology; Literature: A Pocket Anthology; Inside Literature: Reading, Responding, Writing (with Steven Zani); The Art of the Short Story (with Dana Gioia); and Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (with April Lindner). He has also authored five collections of poetry, including No Word of Farewell: Selected Poems, 1970-2000. He has been awarded the Michael Braude Award for verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gwynn is University Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
