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Perrine's Literature : Structure, Sound, and Sense

ISBN: 9781413006544 | 141300654X
Edition: 9th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 7/1/2005

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SummaryTable of Contents
The best-seller for nearly 50 years and the introduction to literature textbook that first set the standard for including a wide range of engaging and diverse forms of literature, Arp/Johnson/Perrine continues to be the most inclusive anthology of fiction, poetry, and drama.
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Prefacexxv
Professional Acknowledgmentsxxvii
Foreword to Studentsxxxiii
Writing about Literature1(508)
I. Why Write about Literature?
3(1)
II. For Whom Do You Write?
3(2)
III. Two Basic Approaches
5(2)
1. Explication
5(1)
2. Analysis
6(1)
IV. Choosing a Topic
7(4)
1. Papers That Focus on a Single Literary Work
7(1)
2. Papers of Comparison and Contrast
8(1)
3. Papers on a Number of Works by a Single Author
9(1)
4. Papers on a Number of Works with Some Feature Other Than Authorship in Common
10(1)
V. Proving Your Point
11(1)
VI. Writing the Paper
12(3)
VII. Writing In-Class Essays or Essay Tests
15(1)
VIII. Introducing Quotations (Qi-Q11)
16(7)
IX. Documentation
23(9)
1. Textual Documentation (TD1-TD5)
24(1)
2. Parenthetical Documentation (PD1-PD6)
25(3)
3. Documentation by Works Cited
28(2)
4. Documentation of Electronic Sources
30(2)
X. Stance and Style (S1-S6)
32(2)
XI. Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage: Common Problems
34(6)
1. Grammar (G1-G2)
34(1)
2. Punctuation (P1-PS)
35(2)
3. Usage (U1-U2)
37(3)
XII. Writing Samples
40(19)
1. Fiction Explication: "Darkness" in the Conclusion of "The Child by Tiger"
40(3)
2. Fiction Analysis: The Function of the Frame Story in "Once upon a Time"
43(3)
3. Poetry Explication: "A Study of Reading Habits"
46(3)
4. Poetry Analysis: Diction in "Pathedy of Manners"
49(3)
5. Drama Explication: Iago's First Soliloquy
52(4)
6. Drama Analysis: Othello's Race
56(3)
Fiction The Elements of Fiction
59(450)
Chapter One One Reading the Story
61(42)
Reviewing Chapter One
67(1)
Richard Connell
The Most Dangerous Game
67(19)
Tobias Wolff
Hunters in the Snow
86(1)
Understanding and Evaluating Fiction
100(2)
Suggestions for Writing
102(1)
Chapter Two Plot and Structure
103(58)
Reviewing Chapter Two
111(1)
Graham Greene
The Destructors
111(14)
Alice Munro
How I Met My Husband
125(16)
Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
141(19)
Suggestions for Writing
160(1)
Chapter Three Characterization
161(27)
Reviewing Chapter Three
166(1)
Alice Walker
Everyday Use
166(9)
Katherine Mansfield
Miss Brill
175(4)
Mary Hood
How Far She Went
179(8)
Suggestions for Writing
187(1)
Chapter Four Theme
188(39)
Reviewing Chapter Four
195(1)
Toni Cade Bambara
The Lesson
195(7)
Anton Chekhov
Gooseberries
202(1)
Translated by Constance Garnett
Eudora Welty
A Worn Path
212(8)
Nadine Gordimer
Once upon a Time
220(5)
Suggestions for Writing
225(2)
Chapter Five Point of View
227(47)
Reviewing Chapter Five
233(1)
Willa Cather
Paul's Case
234(17)
Shirley Jackson
The Lottery
251(9)
Katherine Anne Porter
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
260(8)
Ernest Hemingway
Hills Like White Elephants
268(5)
Suggestions for Writing
273(1)
Chapter Six Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy
274(60)
Reviewing Chapter Six
285(1)
D.H. Lawrence
The Rocking-Horse Winner
285(14)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown
299(12)
Joyce Carol Oates
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
311(16)
Gabriel Garcia Márquez
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
327(1)
Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Suggestions for Writing
333(1)
Chapter Seven Humor and Irony
334(37)
Reviewing Chapter Seven
338(1)
Frank O'Connor
The Drunkard
339(9)
Woody Allen
The Kugelmass Episode
348(10)
Albert Camus
The Guest
358(1)
Translated by Justin O'Brien
Suggestions for Writing
370(1)
Chapter Eight Evaluating Fiction
371(64)
Reviewing Chapter Eight
374(1)
Exercise
375(1)
O. Henry
A Municipal Report
375(14)
Susan Glaspell
A Jury of Her Peers
389(19)
Exercise
408(1)
Edith Wharton
Roman Fever
409(11)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A New Leaf
420(14)
Suggestions for Writing
434(1)
Two Featured Writers James Joyce and Flannery O'Connor
435(1)
James Joyce
Araby
437(5)
Eveline
442(5)
The Boarding House
447(7)
Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
454(14)
Good Country People
468(18)
Greenleaf
486(20)
Suggestions for Writing
506(3)
Stories for Further Reading509(432)
Chinua Achebe
Civil Peace
511(5)
Raymond Carver
Cathedral
516(13)
John Cheever
The Swimmer
529(10)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
American History
539(7)
Stephen Crane
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
546(10)
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily
556(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
The Gilded Six-Bits
564(11)
Ha Jin
A Contract
575(4)
Herman Melville
Bartleby the Scrivener
579(32)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado
611(6)
Elizabeth Tallent
No One's a Mystery
617(2)
John Updike
A&P
619(6)
Thomas Wolfe
The Child by Tiger
625(20)
Poetry Elements of Poetry
645(296)
Chapter One What Is Poetry?
647(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Eagle
649(1)
William Shakespeare
Winter
650(1)
Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est
651(1)
Reviewing Chapter One
654(1)
Understanding and Evaluating Poetry
655(1)
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
656(1)
Robert Hayden
The Whipping
656(1)
Emily Dickinson
The last Night that She lived
657(1)
Dudley Randall
Ballad of Birmingham
658(2)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Kitchenette Building
660(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheelbarrow
661(1)
Langston Hughes
Suicide's Note
661(1)
A.E. Housman
Terence, this is stupid stuff
662(2)
Adrienne Rich
Poetry: I
664(1)
Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
665(1)
Suggestions for Writing
666(2)
Chapter Two Reading the Poem
668(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Man He Killed
670(1)
Philip Larkin
A Study of Reading Habits
671(3)
A.E. Housman
Is my team plowing
674(1)
Reviewing Chapter Two
677(1)
John Donne
Break of Day
677(1)
Emily Dickinson
There's been a Death, in the Opposite House
678(1)
Mari Evans
When in Rome
679(1)
Sylvia Plath
Mirror
680(1)
William Blake
The Clod and the Pebble
680(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Facing It
681(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Eros Turannos
682(2)
Adrienne Rich
Storm Warnings
684(1)
Suggestions for Writing
685(1)
Chapter Three Denotation and Connotation
686(1)
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book
686(2)
William Shakespeare
When my love swears that she is made of truth
688(1)
Ellen Kay
Pathedy of Manners
689(2)
Exercises
691(1)
Reviewing Chapter Three
692(1)
Henry Reed
Naming of Parts
692(1)
Langston Hughes
Cross
693(1)
William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us
694(1)
Adrienne Rich
"I Am in Danger-Sir-"
695(1)
Robert Frost
Desert Places
696(1)
John Donne
A Hymn to God the Father
697(1)
Elizabeth Bishop
One Art
698(1)
Suggestions for Writing
699(1)
Chapter Four Imagery
700(1)
Robert Browning
Meeting at Night
701(1)
Robert Browning
Parting at Morning
702(1)
Exercises
703(1)
Reviewing Chapter Four
703(1)
Gerard Manley
Hopkins Spring
703(1)
William Carlos Williams
The Widow's Lament in Springtime
704(1)
Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
705(1)
Adrienne Rich
Living in Sin
706(1)
Seamus Heaney
The Forge
707(1)
Robert Frost
After Apple-Picking
708(1)
Robert Hayden
Those Winter Sundays
709(1)
Jean Toomer
Reapers
710(1)
George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Destruction of Sennacherib
710(1)
John Keats
To Autumn
711(2)
Suggestions for Writing
713(1)
Chapter Five Figurative Language I: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Apostrophe, Metonymy
714(1)
Frances Cornford
The Guitarist Tunes Up
715(1)
Robert Francis
The Hound
715(1)
Robert Frost
Bereft
716(1)
Emily Dickinson
It sifts from Leaden Sieves
717(2)
David Mason
Song of the Powers
719(2)
John Keats
Bright Star
721(3)
Exercise
724(1)
Reviewing Chapter Five
724(1)
Richard Wilbur
Mind
725(1)
Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed
725(1)
Sylvia Plath
Metaphors
726(1)
Philip Larkin
Toads
727(1)
Adrienne Rich
Ghost of a Chance
728(1)
John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
729(1)
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
730(2)
Langston Hughes
Dream Deferred
732(1)
Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry
732(1)
Suggestions for Writing
733(1)
Chapter Six Figurative Language 2: Symbol, Allegory
734(1)
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
734(2)
Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider
736(1)
William Blake
The Sick Rose
737(2)
Seamus Heaney
Digging
739(3)
Robert Herrick
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
742(1)
George Herbert
Peace
743(2)
Exercises
745(1)
Reviewing Chapter Six
745(1)
Robert Frost
Fire and Ice
746(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses
746(3)
Alastair Reid
Curiosity
749(1)
Richard Wilbur
The Writer
750(1)
Adrienne Rich
Power
751(1)
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
752(1)
John Donne
Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness
753(2)
Suggestions for Writing
755(1)
Chapter Seven Figurative Language 3: Paradox, Overstatement, Understatement, Irony
756(1)
Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense
757(1)
John Donne
The Sun Rising
758(1)
Countee Cullen
Incident
759(2)
Marge Piercy
Barbie Doll
761(2)
William Blake
The Chimney Sweeper
763(1)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
764(1)
Exercise
765(1)
Reviewing Chapter Seven
766(1)
John Donne
Batter my heart, three-personed God
766(1)
Elisavietta Ritchie
Sorting Laundry
767(2)
Billy Collins
The History Teacher
769(1)
Robert Frost
A Considerable Speck
770(1)
W.H. Auden
The Unknown Citizen
771(1)
Joyce Carol Oates
American Holiday
772(1)
Lucille Clifton
in the inner city
773(1)
M. Carl Holman
Mr. Z
774(1)
Adrienne Rich
Afterward
775(1)
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
775(2)
Suggestions for Writing
777(1)
Chapter Eight Allusion
778(1)
Robert Frost
"Out, Out-"
779(1)
William Shakespeare
From Macbeth ("She should have died hereafter")
780(1)
Reviewing Chapter Eight
781(1)
e.e. cummings
in Just-
782(1)
Countee Cullen
Yet Do I Marvel
783(1)
John Milton
On His Blindness
783(1)
Katharyn Howd Machan
Hazel Tells LaVerne
784(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Miniver Cheevy
785(1)
T. S. Eliot
Journey of the Magi
786(2)
William Butler Yeats
Leda and the Swan
788(1)
Adrienne Rich
I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus
789(1)
Suggestions for Writing
789(2)
Chapter Nine Meaning and Idea
791(1)
A.E. Housman
Loveliest of Trees
792(1)
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
793(1)
Reviewing Chapter Nine
795(1)
Ralph Waldo
Emerson The Rhodora
795(1)
Robert Frost
Design
796(1)
Emily Dickinson
I never saw a Moor
797(1)
Emily Dickinson
"Faith" is a fine invention
797(1)
John Keats
On the Sonnet
798(1)
Billy Collins
Sonnet
798(1)
John Donne
The Indifferent
799(1)
John Donne
Love's Deity
800(1)
Billy Collins
My Number
801(1)
Edwin Denby
I had heard it's a fight
802(1)
Suggestions for Writing
803(1)
Chapter Ten Tone
804(1)
Richard Eberhart
For a Lamb
806(1)
Emily Dickinson
Apparently with no surprise
806(2)
Michael Drayton
Since there's no help
808(1)
Reviewing Chapter Ten
809(1)
William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes
809(1)
Adrienne Rich
Miracle Ice Cream
810(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Crossing the Bar
810(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Oxen
811(1)
Emily Dickinson
One dignity delays for all
812(1)
Emily Dickinson
'Twas warm-at first-like Us
813(1)
John Donne
The Apparition
813(1)
John Donne
The Flea
814(2)
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
816(1)
Philip Larkin
Church Going
817(3)
Gavin Ewart
Ending
820(1)
Anonymous
Love
820(1)
Suggestions for Writing
821(1)
Chapter Eleven Musical Devices
822(1)
Ogden Nash
The Turtle
823(2)
W.H. Auden
That night when joy began
825(1)
Theodore Roethke
The Waking
826(2)
Gerard Manley
Hopkins God's Grandeur
828(1)
Exercise
829(1)
Reviewing Chapter Eleven
830(1)
William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
830(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
We Real Cool
831(1)
Maya Angelou
Woman Work
832(1)
Sharon Olds
Rite of Passage
833(1)
Emily Dickinson
As imperceptibly as Grief
834(1)
William Stafford
Traveling through the dark
835(1)
Adrienne Rich
In Those Years
836(1)
Marilyn Hacker
1973
836(1)
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
837(1)
Suggestions for Writing
837(1)
Chapter Twelve Two Rhythm and Meter
838(1)
George Herbert
Virtue
843(9)
Exercises
852(1)
Reviewing Chapter Twelve
853(1)
William Blake
"Introduction" to Songs of Innocence
853(1)
Walt Whitman
Had I the Choice
854(1)
Robert Frost
The Aim Was Song
855(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Knight
855(1)
Sylvia Plath
Old Ladies' Home
856(1)
Claude McKay
The Tropics in New York
857(1)
Linda Pastan
To a Daughter Leaving Home
858(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Quinceañera
859(1)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Constantly risking absurdity
860(1)
James Wright
A Blessing
861(1)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Break, break, break
862(1)
Suggestions for Writing
863(1)
Chapter Thirteen Sound and Meaning
864(1)
A.E. Housman
Eight O'Clock
866(1)
Alexander Pope
Sound and Sense
867(4)
Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz-when I died
871(2)
Exercise
873(2)
Reviewing Chapter Thirteen
875(1)
Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth
875(1)
Margaret
Atwood Landcrab
876(1)
John Updike
Recital
877(1)
Adrienne Rich
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
878(1)
John Donne
At the round earth's imagined corners
878(1)
Galway Kinnell
Blackberry Eating
879(1)
Mark Doty
Golden Retrievals
880(1)
Richard Wilbur
A Fire-Truck
880(1)
William Carlos
Williams The Dance
881(1)
Suggestions for Writing
882(1)
Chapter Fourteen Pattern
883(1)
George Herbert
The Pulley
884(2)
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
886(1)
William Shakespeare
That time of year
887(2)
Dylan Thomas
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
889(1)
Exercise
890(1)
Reviewing Chapter Fourteen
891(1)
William Shakespeare
From Romeo and Juliet
891(1)
John Donne
Death, be not proud
892(1)
Claude McKay
The White City
893(1)
Adrienne Rich
Final Notations
893(1)
Martha Collins
The Story We Know
894(1)
Wendy Cope
Lonely Hearts
895(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Ruined Maid
896(1)
Robert Frost
Acquainted with the Night
897(1)
Emily Dickinson
These are the days when Birds come back
898(1)
Maxine Kumin
Woodchucks
899(1)
Robert Herrick
Delight in Disorder
900(1)
Michael McFee
In Medias Res
901(1)
Suggestions for Writing
901(2)
Chapter Fifteen Evaluating Poetry I: Sentimental, Rhetorical, Didactic Verse
903(12)
Reviewing Chapter Fifteen
906(1)
God's Will for You and Me
906(1)
Pied Beauty
907(1)
A Poison Tree
907(1)
The Most Vital Thing in Life
908(1)
Pitcher
908(1)
The Old-Fashioned Pitcher
909(1)
The Long Voyage
909(1)
Breathes there the man
910(1)
The Engine
910(1)
I like to see it lap the Miles
911(1)
The Toys
911(1)
Little Boy Blue
912(1)
When I have fears that I may cease to be
913(1)
O Solitude!
914(1)
Suggestions for Writing
914(1)
Chapter Sixteen Evaluating Poetry 2: Poetic Excellence
915(1)
John Donne
The Canonization
916(2)
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
918(2)
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain Slant of light
920(1)
Robert Frost
Home Burial
921(4)
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
925(5)
Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning
930(4)
Langston Hughes
The Weary Blues
934(2)
Elizabeth Bishop
The Fish
936(2)
Adrienne Rich
Diving into the Wreck
938(3)
Poems for Further Reading941(488)
Matthew Arnold
To Marguerite
943(1)
Margaret Atwood
Siren Song
943(1)
W.H. Auden
Musée des Beaux Arts
944(1)
D.C. Berry
On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High
945(1)
William Blake
The Lamb
946(1)
William Blake
The Tiger
947(1)
David Bottoms
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
948(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sadie and Maud
948(1)
Gwendolyn Brooks
a song in the front yard
949(1)
Lucille Clifton
good times
950(1)
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Women Who Love Angels
950(1)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
951(1)
Stephen Crane
War Is Kind
952(1)
Frank A. Cross, Jr.
Rice Will Grow Again
953(2)
Countee Cullen
For a Lady I Know
955(1)
Emily Dickinson
A Light exists in Spring
955(1)
Emily Dickinson
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
955(1)
Emily Dickinson
I died for Beauty-but was scarce
956(1)
Emily Dickinson
I like a look of Agony
957(1)
John Donne
The Good-Morrow
957(1)
John Donne
Song: Go and catch a falling star
958(1)
John Donne
The Triple Fool
959(1)
Keith Douglas
Vergissmeinnicht
959(1)
W.D. Ehrhart
Guns
960(1)
Carolyn Forché
The Colonel
961(1)
Robert Frost
Birches
962(1)
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
963(2)
Robert Frost
Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
965(1)
Robert Frost
The Oven Bird
965(1)
R.S. Gwynn
Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins
965(2)
Rachel Hadas
The Red Hat
967(1)
Donald Hall
My Son, My Executioner
967(1)
Thomas Hardy
Channel Firing
968(1)
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
969(1)
Thomas Hardy
Hap
970(1)
A.E. Housman
To an Athlete Dying Young
971(1)
Langston Hughes
Aunt Sue's Stories
972(1)
Langston Hughes
Theme for English B
972(2)
Ted Hughes
Thistles
974(1)
Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
974(1)
Jenny Joseph
Warning
974(1)
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci
975(2)
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
977(2)
Maxine Kumin
The Sound of Night
979(1)
Philip Larkin
Aubade
980(1)
Larry Levis
L.A. Loiterings
981(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Pity me not
982(1)
Joyce Carol Oates
Loves of the Parrots
983(1)
Sharon Olds
I Go Back to May 1937
983(1)
Sharon Olds
The Victims
984(1)
Robert Phillips
Wish You Were Here
985(1)
Marge Piercy
A Work of Artifice
985(1)
Sylvia Plath
Mad Girl's Love Song
986(1)
Sylvia Plath
Spinster
987(1)
Sylvia Plath
Wuthering Heights
988(1)
Dudley Randall
To the Mercy Killers
989(1)
John Crowe Ransom
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
990(1)
Adrienne Rich
Delta
990(1)
Adrienne Rich
Dreamwood
991(1)
Adrienne Rich
The Fact of a Doorframe
991(1)
Adrienne Rich
Our Whole Life
992(1)
Alberto Rios
Nani
993(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Mill
994(1)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Mr. Flood's Party
994(2)
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Richard Cory
996(1)
Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman
997(1)
Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz
997(1)
Sherod Santos
Driftwood
998(1)
Anne Sexton
The Abortion
998(1)
Anne Sexton
Her Kind
999(1)
William Shakespeare
Fear no more
1000(1)
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
1001(1)
Karl Shapiro
The Fly
1001(1)
Dave Smith
Little Ode to the Wheelchair Boys
1002(1)
Cathy Song
The Youngest Daughter
1003(2)
Gary Soto
Small Town with One Road
1005(1)
Wole Soyinka
Telephone Conversation
1006(1)
Edmund Spenser
One day I wrote her name upon the strand
1007(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Death of a Soldier
1007(1)
Wallace Stevens
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
1008(1)
Wallace Stevens
The Snow Man
1008(1)
Leon Stokesbury
Listening to My Mother's Comic Banter with Sackboys and Servers
1009(1)
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill
1010(2)
Chase Twichell
Blurry Cow
1012(1)
John Updike
Telephone Poles
1013(1)
Mona Van Duyn
What the Motorcycle Said
1013(1)
Derek Walcott
The Virgins
1014(1)
Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
1015(1)
William Carlos Williams
Danse Russe
1015(1)
William Carlos Williams
Poem
1016(1)
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All
1017(1)
Ralph Tejeda Wilson
Henzey's Pond
1017(1)
William Wordsworth
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
1018(1)
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
1019(1)
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper
1019(1)
Judith Wright
Portrait
1020(1)
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
1021(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
1022(1)
William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole
1023(2)
Drama The Elements of Drama
1025(404)
Chapter One The Nature of Drama
1027(47)
Reviewing Chapter One
1030(1)
Understanding and Evaluating Drama
1030(3)
Susan Glaspell
Trifles
1033(12)
Joyce Carol Oates
The Interview
1045(11)
Edward Albee
The Sandbox
1056(7)
David Ives
Time Flies
1063(10)
Suggestions for Writing
1073(1)
Chapter Two Realistic and Nonrealistic Drama
1074(135)
Reviewing Chapter Two
1078(1)
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll House
1079(1)
Translated by Otto Reinert
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
1143(54)
Luis Valdez
Los Vendidos
1197(10)
Suggestions for Writing
1207(2)
Chapter Three Tragedy and Comedy
1209(222)
Reviewing Chapter Three
1216(1)
Sophocles
Oedipus Rex
1216(1)
Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
William Shakespeare
Othello, the Moor of Venice
1263(95)
Molière
Tartuffe, or The Impostor
1358(1)
Translated by Richard Wilbur
Anton Chekhov
The Boor
1415(1)
Translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky
Suggestions for Writing
1426(3)
Plays For Further Reading1429(230)
Christopher Durang
For Whom the Southern Bette Tolls (or, "The Further Adventures of Amanda and Her Children")
1431(14)
Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman
1445(81)
Rich Orloff
Oedi
1526(12)
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1538(63)
August Wilson
Fences
1601(58)
Glossary of Terms1659(14)
Copyrights and Acknowledgments1673(12)
Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines1685

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