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The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama

ISBN: 9780155020870 | 0155020870
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Heinle
Pub. Date: 9/15/1995

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SummaryTable of Contents
The HB Anthology of Drama has set the pace in comprehensive coverage of world theatre from Greek to the present. This anthology continues that trend with a strong representation by women writers and by writers of color. Each unit of the third edition begins with an extensive introduction, placing drama in the context of a specific historical era. Each play is accompanied by a brief biography of the playwright and a short introduction to the play and concludes with a selection of critical readings drawn from the period, essays on performance, and a contemporary theater review of one play in that unit. The text can be adapted for a range of courses, such as Theatre History, Modern Drama and various surveys of drama, i.e., by genre (tragedy, comedy), by national origin (American) or as a survey or dramatic literature.
Preface to Instructors and StudentsV
INTRODUCTION: DRAMA, THEATER, AND CULTURE1(10)
Reading Drama and Seeing Theater3(2)
Drama and Theater in History5(2)
Dramatic Genres... MORE(1)
Dramatic Form8(1)
The Stage in Critical Practice9(2)
UNIT I: CLASSICAL ATHENS11(104)
(Aside.) Roman Drama and Theater
20(75)
Aeschylus
Agamemnon
24(20)
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
44(18)
Euripides
Medea
62(15)
Aristophanes
Lysistrata
77(18)
Critical Contexts
95(20)
Aristotle
from The Poetics
95(9)
Friedrich Nietzsche
from The Birth of Tragedy
104(3)
Sue-Ellen Case
from "Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts"
107(8)
UNIT II: CLASSICAL JAPAN115(68)
(Aside.) Sanskrit Drama and Theater
126(31)
Kan'ami Kiyotsugu
Matsukaze
131(6)
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki
137(9)
Anonymous
Love Letter from the Licensed Quarter
146(11)
Critical Contexts
157(26)
Zeami Motokiyo
from "Teachings on Style and the Flower"
157(6)
Zeami Motokiyo
from "A Mirror Held to the Flower"
163(10)
Chikamatsu Monozaemon
"Chikamatsu on the Art of the Puppet Stage"
173(2)
Yamazaki Masakazu
"The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: The Artistic Theories of Zeami"
175(8)
UNIT III: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ENGLAND183(206)
(Aside.) The Jacobean Court Masque
198(164)
Anonymous
The York Crucifixion
202(5)
Anonymous
Everyman
207(11)
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
218(26)
William Shakespeare
Hamlet
244(46)
William Shakespeare
The Tempest
290(28)
Ben Jonson
Volpone
318(44)
Critical Contexts
362(27)
Sir Philip Sidney
from Apology for Poetry
362(1)
Mikhail Bakhtin
from Rabelais and His World
363(3)
Lynda E. Boose
from "The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare"
366(11)
Peter Stallybrass
from "Transvestism and the `Body Beneath': Speculating on the Boy Actor"
377(12)
UNIT IV: EARLY MODERN EUROPE389(170)
(Aside.) Commedia dell' arte
402(131)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Life is a Dream
405(25)
Moliere
Tartuffe
430(29)
Jean Racine
Phaedra
459(19)
Aphra Behn
The Rover
478(33)
George Lillo
The London Merchant
511(22)
Critical Contexts
533(24)
John Dryden
"Preface to Troilus and Cressida, Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy"
533(11)
Northrop Frye
from Anatomy of Criticism
544(7)
Katharine Eisaman Maus
from "Playhouse Flesh and Blood': Sexual Ideology and the Restoration Actress"
551(6)
PHOTO ESSAY: RESTAGING THE CLASSICS
557(2)
UNIT V: MODERN EUROPE559(234)
(Aside.) Melodrama
568(193)
Georg Buchner
Woyzeck
573(12)
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll House
585(26)
August Strindberg
Miss Julie
611(23)
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
634(22)
Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
656(22)
Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara
678(33)
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
711(22)
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children
733(28)
Critical Contexts
761(32)
Emile Zola
from Naturalism in the Theatre
761(6)
Bertolt Brecht
"Theater for Pleasure or Theater for Instruction"
767(4)
Roland Barthes
"The Tasks of Brechtian Criticism"
771(3)
Michael Goldman
"The Ghost of Joy: Romanticism and the Forms of Modern Drama"
774(8)
W.B. Worthen
from Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater
782(11)
UNIT VI: THE UNITED STATES793(252)
(Aside.) The Federal Theater Project
800(221)
Susan Glaspell
Trifles
804(6)
Eugene O'Neill
Ah, Wilderness!
810(36)
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
846(26)
Amiri Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Dutchman
872(9)
Luis Valdez
El Teatro Campesino
Los Vendidos
881(6)
Maria Irene Fornes
Fefu and Her Friends
887(16)
Ntozake Shange
spell #7
903(19)
Sam Shepard
True West
922(20)
August Wilson
Fences
942(26)
David Henry Hwang
M. Butterfly
968(23)
Tony Kushner
Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches
991(30)
Critical Contexts
1021(24)
Arthur Miller
"Tragedy and the Common Man"
1021(2)
George Steiner
from The Death of Tragedy
1023(3)
Raymond Williams
from Modern Tragedy
1026(10)
Amiri Baraka
LeRoi Jones
"The Revolutionary Theatre"
1036(2)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
"Beyond the Culture Wars"
1038(7)
UNIT VII: THE WORLD STAGE1045(248)
(Aside.) Performance Art
1052(219)
Samuel Beckett
Endgame
1056(21)
Harold Pinter
The Homecoming
1077(23)
Marguerite Duras
India Song
1100(26)
Tom Stoppard
Travesties
1126(29)
Wole Soyinka
Death and the King's Horseman
1155(24)
Caryl Churchill
Cloud Nine
1179(27)
Brian Friel
Translations
1206(24)
Bette Bourne
Paul Shaw
Peggy Shaw
Lois Weaver
Belle Reprieve
1230(13)
Tomson Highway
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
1243(28)
Critical Contexts
1271(22)
Antonin Artaud
from The Theater and Its Double
1271(6)
Martin Esslin
from The Theatre of the Absurd
1277(4)
Fredric Jameson
from "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
1281(3)
Elin Diamond
"Brechtian Theory / Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticism"
1284(9)
Appendix: Writing About Drama and Theater1293(8)
Glossary1301(1)
Bibliography1312(14)
Video, Film, and Sound Recordings of Plays1326(1)
Credits1327

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